Saturday, 12 December 2020
Sebastiana Lopez, a Para-javelin thrower from the United States, has been handed a four-year ban by the International Paralympic Committee for an anti-doping violation.
The F54 thrower returned a positive test from a urine sample provided on August 26 2019 during the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games in Peru.
The substance, GW501516, is on the World Anti-Doping Agency s Prohibited List under the class of hormone and metabolic modulators.
This means she will be stripped of two of her medals from the 2019 Parapan American Games - a silver in the F54 women s javelin throw and a bronze in the women s shot put F53/54/55.