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27 June 2026
Over the course of 2023, Parveen Sharma was included in the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) registered testing pool, managed by the International Testing Agency (ITA), and committed three whereabouts failures.
More precisely, on three occasions over the course of twelve months, the ITA attempted to locate the athlete for unannounced sample collection, but the athlete could not be located based on the whereabouts information he had provided for such purpose. These circumstances amounted to an ADRV under article 2.4 of the IWUF anti-doping rules.¹
Following the results management process conducted by the ITA, the ITA submitted the matter for adjudication to the IHP on 11 July 2025.
On 8 May 2026, the IHP found that the athlete had committed an ADRV for three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period in accordance with article 2.4 of the IWUF anti-doping rules.
As a result, the IHP has imposed a two-year period of ineligibility on Parveen Sharma from 8 May 2026 to 7 May 2028. Additionally, all results obtained by the athlete from 1 October 2023 on are disqualified.
The athlete and the relevant stakeholders, namely IWUF/ITA, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Indian Anti-Doping Agency, have a right to appeal the IHP decision before the appeals division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The ITA will not comment further on this case.
¹ Athletes included in a Registered Testing Pool (RTP), such as Parveen Sharma, 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 an ADRV as per article 2.4 of the IWUF anti-doping rules and World Anti-Doping Code. The 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 of the IWUF anti-doping rules).
