India sprinter Hima Das has been provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for three whereabout failures in 12 months, according to sources.

Whereabouts information (home address, any other location, email address and phone number) is used by anti-doping organisations to locate athletes for effective out-of-competition doping control and testing.

Under the World Athletics Anti-Doping rules, any combination of three whereabouts failures — filing failure and/or missed test — within a period of 12 months constitutes an anti-doping rule violation.

Hima faces a maximum two-year ban, which can be reduced to one year depending on the degree of her fault.

PTI