Commonwealth games: Sri Lanka boxer stripped of gold medal

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan boxer Manju Wanniarachchi was stripped of his Commonwealth Games gold medal after he failed a second doping test for a banned steroid.

Sean McGoldrick from Wales becomes the bantamweight Games champion as a result. The Commonwealth Games Federation’s (CGF) Federation Court said Wanniarachchi has been disqualified from the 2010 Commonwealth Games and his competition results at the Delhi Games be nullified.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 9^th, 2011.