The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has reported an anti doping rule violation against Mr. Gundruy Ismayilov (Respondent) after his sample tested positive for the prohibited substance stanozolol on 18 September 2004.
The IPC notified Respondent of the doping violation and ordered a provisional suspension.
Respondent’s coach presented the Committee the testing results of a Turkish laboratory, dated 13 September 2004, initiated by IPC Azerbaijan in an effort to ensure that Respondent was not committing any anti-doping rule violations. The results of the Turkish Sample Analysis showed no Adverse Analytical Finding.
The Committee ruled not to consider the results of the Turkish Sample Analysis to be relevant to its recommendation to the IPC Management Committee.
Because Respondent has been previously sanctioned for 2 years during the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games the IPC Anti-Doping Committee recommends to impose lifetime ineligibility to Respondent.
On 21 September 2009 the IPC Governing Board accepted the recommendation of the IPC Anti-Doping Committee.
Hereafter on 8 November 2013 IPC has overturned Azerbaijani powerlifter Gunduz Ismayilov’s lifetime ban, imposed on him in 2004, after his former partner confessed in a court of law to spiking his drink with a substance which led to his second anti-doping violation in four years.
The decision by the IPC to overturn the ban now however comes after his former partner - an athlete who also competed in Athens - admitted in a Baku court of law that she had sabotaged his drink in the Athens Paralympic Village with a prohibited substance which led to the anti-doping violation. The two had separated in 2003, and although they had remained on good terms, she had spiked the drink as a form of punishment.
