THE Southeast Asian Games Federation (SEAGF) today revealed that three athletes, including Malaysian gold medal diver Wendy Ng Yan Yee, failed doping tests at the 2017 Kuala Lumpur Sea Games (KL2017).

The other two who failed the test were Thai athletes Nurisan Loseng (Pencak Silat)  and swimmer Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn.

SEAGF president Tan Sri Tunku Imran Tuanku Jaafar said their wins and medals would be withdrawn.

“They will be disqualified in all events and the medals will be taken away from them.

“If they won gold, the winner of the silver medal will be announced as the winner and will be given the gold medal,” he told a press conference here, today.

Wendy will be stripped of the gold medals she won at KL2017,  in the women’s 3m springboard individual and 3m springboard synchronised event with Nur Dhabitah Sabri.

For  the women’s 3m springboard individual, Nur Dhabitah who  finished in second place will be awarded the gold medal and for the  3m springboard synchronised, the gold medal goes to Singapore’s Ashlee Tan Yi Xuan and Fong Kay Yian.

Nurisan, who helped her team win gold in the women’s team art event, has to give way to the silver medallist from Vietnam.

Benjaporn loses two silver medals in the 10km open water swimming and 4x200m team relay event.

Singapore’s Chantal Liew will receive the silver medal in  the 10km open water event while the Philippines’ relay team gets the silver in the 4x200m.

The three athletes tested positive for the banned substance sibutramine in New Delhi on October 11.

Sibutramine is an appetite suppressant commonly found in weight loss supplements. – Bernama, December 12, 2017.