Seyed Aliasghar Javanmardi
Introduction
Seyed Aliasghar Javanmardi is an Iranian para athletics shot putter who was banned from the sport for three years by the International Paralympic Committee after returning adverse analytical findings for oxandrolone, an anabolic androgenic steroid on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Prohibited List. The case rested on two out-of-competition urine samples β one collected on 22 September 2025 by Iran’s national anti-doping agency, and a second collected by the IPC on 24 September 2025 at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi β which the IPC treated together as a single anti-doping rule violation. Javanmardi accepted the violation and the proposed consequences: a three-year ban running from 28 October 2025 to 27 October 2028, and disqualification of all his results from 22 September 2025 onward, including forfeiture of the gold medal he won in the men’s shot put F35 competition at the New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships.
Background Information
Javanmardi competes in the F35 classification of para athletics shot put for Iran, and the positive tests bracketed the biggest result of his career: the gold medal in the men’s shot put F35 final at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, where the IPC collected its own sample on 24 September 2025, two days after Iran’s NADO had collected the first out-of-competition sample on 22 September 2025. Oxandrolone, the substance found, is included on WADA’s 2025 Prohibited List under the class S.1.1 Anabolic Androgenic Steroids. The IPC provisionally suspended him on 28 October 2025 pending resolution of the case. The two findings were considered together as one single violation under the Code β a procedural point that determined the three-year length of the sanction rather than a longer accumulation. The IPC announced the final outcome on 1 September 2026.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Banned three years for doping. Javanmardi accepted an anti-doping rule violation for oxandrolone built on two out-of-competition samples from September 2025; his New Delhi 2025 World Championships gold medal was forfeited and his results from the sample date onward were disqualified.
The IPC’s announcement set out the sequence: the first sample was collected on 22 September 2025 by Iran NADO, the second on 24 September 2025 by the IPC at the New Delhi championships; both returned adverse analytical findings for oxandrolone; both were considered together as one single ADRV. Javanmardi was provisionally suspended on 28 October 2025, and he “subsequently accepted his commission of the ADRV, and the consequences proposed by the IPC.” The sanction is ineligibility for competition and other sporting activities β apart from authorised anti-doping education or rehabilitation programmes β for three years from 28 October 2025, ending on 27 October 2028.
The results consequences reach back to the first sample: all results obtained from 22 September 2025 until the commencement of the provisional suspension were disqualified, with all resulting consequences including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes β expressly including disqualification of all his results at the New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships and forfeiture of the gold medal from the men’s shot put F35 competition. The IPC’s release invoked the strict-liability rule: an anti-doping rule violation occurs whenever a prohibited substance is found in an athlete’s bodily sample, whether or not the athlete intentionally or unintentionally used it or was otherwise at fault. Later coverage of a separate IPC doping case noted Javanmardi’s three-year term as the comparator sanction, reporting that he had forfeited the New Delhi gold.
Public Reaction and Consequences
No public response from Javanmardi beyond his acceptance of the violation has been reported; the case’s public footprint is the IPC’s September 2026 announcement and the follow-on coverage in Iranian and international sports media. The consequences stripped the career peak he had just reached β a world championship gold medal, awarded in the New Delhi 2025 shot put F35 final β from the record entirely, alongside every other result from late September 2025 onward. For Iran’s para athletics programme, the case joined the IPC’s recent run of announced doping sanctions and removed a reigning world champion from eligibility through the 2028 season. The announcement closed with the IPC’s standing statement that, as a signatory of the World Anti-Doping Code, it “remains committed to a doping-free sporting environment at all levels,” including β per its own framing β “in the spirit of sport… for athletes with an impairment.”
Current Status
Javanmardi is serving a three-year period of ineligibility that began on 28 October 2025 and ends on 27 October 2028, barring him from all competition and other sporting activities except authorised anti-doping education or rehabilitation programmes. His results from 22 September 2025 onward β including the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships and its F35 shot put gold medal β stand disqualified and forfeited under the IPC’s decision. The violation was accepted rather than litigated, and no appeal or CAS challenge has been reported. The earliest he could return to IPC-sanctioned para athletics is late October 2028, with no world championship or Paralympic result from the stripped period remaining on his record.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The ban cost Javanmardi the summit of his sport: a world championship title won in New Delhi in September 2025 was erased by forfeiture weeks after it was won, and the three-year term removes him from every sanctioned competition through October 2028 β covering the 2027 world championships cycle and the build-up to the LA 2028 Paralympic Games, whose qualifying window closes within his period of ineligibility. At the ban’s end he would be returning as a former world champion with no championship result to defend and a completed doping sanction on his record β under the Code, a second violation would carry a substantially longer sanction. For the F35 shot put class, the forfeiture vacated the podium position behind him, and the case stands in the IPC’s published record as its September 2026 example of the strict-liability regime applied to a champion: the medal, in the agency’s terms, forfeited with all resulting consequences.