In Hangzhou, Tejen Tejenov, the silver medallist in the men's +90kg kurash event at the Asian Games, has received a provisional suspension after testing positive for prohibited substances, as reported by the International Testing Agency (ITA) on Thursday, October 5th.

Tejenov marks the initial medalist and the fifth athlete from the Hangzhou Games to be identified by the ITA for a failed doping test. The 30-year-old athlete, with a background in judo and wrestling, previously achieved a seventh-place finish in judo during the Jakarta Games in 2018.

The ITA indicated that Tejenov's sample for testing was collected on September 30th during the finals of the kurash men's +90kg event.

ITA said, "adverse analytical finding for the non-specified prohibited substances dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone metabolite and methasterone metabolites"

Tejenov's silver medal represents the highest achievement for Turkmenistan at the Hangzhou Games thus far, with the central Asian nation also securing four bronze medals across kurash, judo, and boxing events.

The ITA reported on Wednesday that Uzbek cyclist Aleksey Fomovskiy and Philippine mountain biker Ariana Evangelista have both received suspensions following positive drug test results.

Aged 22, Fomovskiy secured a fifth-place finish in the men's omnium track cycling final on September 28 and then went on to claim a sixth-place finish in the road time trial race on Tuesday.

Evangelista finished as the last competitor in the women's mountain bike race on September 25.

The ITA stated that the test was conducted on the day of the omnium final as part of in-competition testing.  "adverse analytical finding for anabolic androgenic steroids"

Evanglista had yielded adverse results for erythropoietin (EPO) in both blood and urine samples obtained during an out-of-competition test conducted on September 24th.

Saudi Arabian long-distance runner Yousef Mohammed Alasiri and Afghan boxer Mohammad Khaibar Nooristani have also faced suspensions due to failed drug tests, even though they did not participate in events in Hangzhou, unlike the kurash fighter and the cyclists.

All five individuals who tested positive for banned substances have the option to request analysis of their B-samples, and their cases have been forwarded to the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for resolution in accordance with the anti-doping regulations of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), as announced by the ITA.