Boxer Manju Wanniarachchi tested positive [October 24 2010]

Sri Lanka boxer Manju Wanniarachchi has been tested for performance enhancing drugs.

Wanniarachchi, who won men’s 56kg bantamweight gold medal at the recent Commonwealth Games in New Delhi has been tested positive for Nandralone, a banned anabolic steroid which has been included in the banned list of performance enhancing drugs by the world anti-doping body – WADA.

The WADA has already informed Sri Lanka’s National Olympic Committee of the positive urine sample test of the Sri Lankan boxer who won a boxing gold medal for Sri Lanka after 72 years.

Wanniarachchi will be stripped off his gold medal if his ‘B’ urine sample too has been tested positive.