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4 March 2025
Over the course of 2022 and 2023, Gitika Narwal was included in the International Boxing Association (IBA) Registered Testing Pool, managed by the ITA, and committed three whereabouts failures. These circumstances amounted to an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to article 2.4 of the IBA anti-doping rules.¹
Following the results management process conducted by the ITA, the ITA submitted the matter for adjudication to CAS ADD. A hearing took place before CAS ADD on 23 September 2024.
After hearing the parties and considering the written submissions and evidence, CAS ADD found that the athlete had committed an ADRV under article 2.4 of the IBA ADR for the occurrence of three whereabouts failures within a twelve-month period and imposed a period of ineligibility of one year, starting on the date of the CAS ADD decision, namely 26 February 2025, running until 25 February 2026. The athlete’s competitive results obtained from 1 April 2023 onwards were also disqualified.
The athlete and the relevant stakeholders, namely IBA/ITA, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Indian National Anti-Doping Organisation, have a right to appeal the CAS ADD decision before the appeals division of the CAS. No further comments will be made on this case.
¹Athletes included in a Registered Testing Pool (RTP), such as Gitika Narwal, have the obligation to provide daily whereabouts as well as a specific daily 60-minute time slot where they will be available for testing. The purpose is to allow anti-doping organisations to locate athletes for unannounced out-of-competition testing. Any combination of three missed tests (which relate to the athletes’ unavailability with respect to their 60-minute time slot) and/or filing failures (which are caused by the athletes’ failure to provide accurate whereabouts) committed within a twelve-month period amount to a potential ADRV as per article 2.4 of the IBA ADR and World Anti-Doping Code. The potential consequences for such ADRV are a period of Ineligibility between one and two years and the disqualification of results obtained since the date of the ADRV, namely the date of the occurrence of third whereabouts failure (article 10.3.2 IBA ADR).
