JAKARTA (Reuters) - Turkmenistan’s freestyle wrestler Nazarov Rustem has become the first athlete at the Asian Games in Jakarta to fail a doping test, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said on Friday.
Rustem, who was eliminated in the pre-quarterfinals of the 57kg class, had his results annulled after failing a pre-competition test on Aug. 17, it said.
“His urine sample showed the presence of furosemide, which is a prohibited substance under ... the WADA prohibited List 2018,” the OCA, which governs the Games, said.
At the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, a total of five athletes tested positive for banned substances and were sent home.
South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan was later stripped of his swimming medals for failing a pre-Games test.
Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Jakarta; editing by Peter Rutherford