Disgraced Vidanage banned for four years [August 10 2011]

Disgraced Sri Lanka weight lifter Chinthana Vidanage has been served with a fur-year ban effective from May 13, 2011. The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) decided to ban Vidanage for using banned steroids.

The Commonwealth Games gold medallist was tested positive for methylhexaneamine at the Asian Championships recently. Vidanage won the gold medal in the men’s 62 kg category weightlifting, Sri Lanka’s first weightlifting gold medal, in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Australia