FILE – This is a Saturday, August 22, 2015 file photo of Ukraine’s Anastasia Mokhnyuk as she checks her time after the 200m event of the women’s heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing. Photo: AP
KIEV: Ukrainian athlete Anastasia Mokhnyuk has been provisionally suspended after becoming the second medalist from last month’s world indoor track championships to test positive for meldonium.
Mokhnyuk won silver in the pentathlon at the championships in Portland behind winner Brianne Theisen-Eaton. Fellow Ukrainian Alina Fodorova took the bronze.
Mokhnyuk said she had been taking meldonium, usually prescribed as a heart drug, …read more
Source: The Himalayan Times
