Sanjivani Jadhav
Sanjivani Baburao Jadhav is an Indian long-distance athlete at 5000m and 10,000m. In 2019 she was banned from competition after probenecid was found in routine tests and a bronze medal from the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was withdrawn. She had won a bronze medal at 5000m at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships.Life
Jadhav was born in Nashik which is a city in Maharashtra. She attended Bhonsala Military College where she combined her ambition for sport with that of becoming a civil servant. She was identified as an outstanding athlete and supported by SportsNest who nurture sports athletes. In 2013 she won three medals at the 1st Asian School Athletics Meet. She came second in the 2016 Delhi marathon.
She is coached by Vijender Singh who trained Kavita Raut. In 2017 she won a bronze medal at the Asian Athletic games in Odisha during the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships – Women's 5000 metres. She was fifth in the Women's 10,000 metre at the same event. In 2018 she took a bronze medal in the 8 km event as part of the Asian Cross Country Championships in Guiyang. The gold and silver were taken by Li Dan of China and Japanese Abe Yukari.
Sanjivani received the Shivchhatrapati Award in 2018. In 2019 she was banned from competition after the masking agent probenecid was found in routine tests in 2018. Her 10,000m bronze medal from the 2019 Doha Asian championships was withdrawn.
