Five years ago, Asian champion quartermiler Nirmala Sheoran was punished with a four-year ban for failing a dope test and her results from August 2016 to November 2018 were disqualified. That meant that Nirmala would lose the 400m gold which she won at the 2017 Bhubaneswar Asian Championships and Jisna Mathew, who had finished third in that final, should have received a silver medal.
“I have not got the silver medal yet. But after we wrote to the Athletics Federation of India, we got a letter saying that I have been upgraded from bronze to silver,” said Jisna.
The Odisha Government had also presented Rs 10 lakh to the gold medal winners, Rs 7.5 lakh for silver and Rs 5 lakh for bronze at the 2017 Asians held in that State but Jisna has not heard anything about the prize-money which she was supposed to have got for the silver.
