QUEEN Tshabalala is the first female professional boxer in South Africa to fail a drug test.
The Yeoville, Johannesburg-based national middleweight champion was yesterday provisionally suspended with immediate effect from competing in any authorised sport by any professional league or any international or national level event after she tested positive.
The South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAID) made this announcement yesterday in a letter to both Tshabalala and Boxing South Africa.
Her urine sample "A", taken after her eighth-round stoppage of Lilian Molala in a women-only boxing tournament on August 27, confirmed the presence of 11-nor-delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carbolyx acid, which is a metabolite of cannabinoids (a product of dagga). The concentration was 75ng/ml, which is above the WADA decision limit of 18ng/ml.
The South African Doping Control Laboratory confirmed this and wrote to both Tshabalala and Boxing SA.
SAID made it clear that the possible consequence for this anti-doping rule violation is, at a minimum, a reprimand and no period of ineligibility from future events, and at a maximum, two years ineligibility.
She has the opportunity to have her "B'" sample analysed in her presence with her representative but if she does not want that to be done, Tshabalala will be given the opportunity to choose to go to the hearing or not.
SAID will then decide her fate. Her trainer, Springkaan Khongoane, distanced himself from the drug saga. "I train her in Claim Street and that's it," he said.
BSA's director of operations Loyiso Mtya said: "This is bad. It happens when we have just undertaken a joint national campaign with SAID to educate boxers on banned substances. BSA is taking this very seriously."
Some boxers who have failed dope test in recent years are Jared Lovett, Ruben Groenewald and national featherweight champion Matima Molefe, whose case is yet to be finalised.
Tshabalala could face ban after doping test
QUEEN Tshabalala is the first female professional boxer in South Africa to fail a drug test.
The Yeoville, Johannesburg-based national middleweight champion was yesterday provisionally suspended with immediate effect from competing in any authorised sport by any professional league or any international or national level event after she tested positive.
The South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAID) made this announcement yesterday in a letter to both Tshabalala and Boxing South Africa.
Her urine sample "A", taken after her eighth-round stoppage of Lilian Molala in a women-only boxing tournament on August 27, confirmed the presence of 11-nor-delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carbolyx acid, which is a metabolite of cannabinoids (a product of dagga). The concentration was 75ng/ml, which is above the WADA decision limit of 18ng/ml.
The South African Doping Control Laboratory confirmed this and wrote to both Tshabalala and Boxing SA.
SAID made it clear that the possible consequence for this anti-doping rule violation is, at a minimum, a reprimand and no period of ineligibility from future events, and at a maximum, two years ineligibility.
She has the opportunity to have her "B'" sample analysed in her presence with her representative but if she does not want that to be done, Tshabalala will be given the opportunity to choose to go to the hearing or not.
SAID will then decide her fate. Her trainer, Springkaan Khongoane, distanced himself from the drug saga. "I train her in Claim Street and that's it," he said.
BSA's director of operations Loyiso Mtya said: "This is bad. It happens when we have just undertaken a joint national campaign with SAID to educate boxers on banned substances. BSA is taking this very seriously."
Some boxers who have failed dope test in recent years are Jared Lovett, Ruben Groenewald and national featherweight champion Matima Molefe, whose case is yet to be finalised.
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