IN TROUBLE AGAIN: Russian powerlifter Sergei Sychev - IPC
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended Russian powerlifter Sergey Sychev for life for committing a third anti-doping violation within a 10-year period.
The 2008 and 2012 Paralympian, who competed in the up to 72kg class, returned an adverse analytical finding for dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone metabolite 4α-chloro-17β-hydroxymethyl-17α-methyl-18-nor-5α-androst-13-en-3α-ol (DHCMT metabolite) in a urine sample provided on 4 July 2018 in an out of competition test in Bryansk, Russia.
This substance is included on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) 2018 Prohibited List under the category S1.1A Exogenous Anabolic Androgenic Steroids.
As a result of his third violation, Sychev faces a lifetime period of ineligibility from sport. His first anti-doping violation was in 2009 and he was suspended for two years. In May 2017, he received a reduced two-year sanction after he was able to prove that his adverse analytical finding for metandienone was due to a contaminated supplement he had taken. He was still serving his second suspension, preparing to come back for competition, when this third anti-doping violation took place.
James Sclater, the IPC’s Anti-Doping Director, said: “While Russia was suspended as an IPC member between August 2016 and February 2019, the IPC continued to target test several Russian Para athletes.
“Sychev was part of a Registered Testing Pool, a group of top-level athletes in specific Paralympic sports who take part in an out-of-competition testing programme. As this is his third anti-doping violation within 10 years, he will now face a lifetime ban from all sport.
“As part of the post-reinstatement criteria we introduced in February 2019 when Russia’s IPC membership suspension was lifted, we continue to implement an enhanced testing programme in the country.”
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