Issam Asinga
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| Full name | Issamade Joseph Tommy Asinga [1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 December 2004 | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Suriname, United States | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprints | |||||||||||||||||
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Issamade Asinga (born 29 December 2004) is a dual American-Surinamese national sprinter who competes in the 100 and 200 meters.
Asinga is currently serving a four-year ban set to expire in August 2027 for an anti-doping rule violation which as of June 2025 is under appeal. His 100m personal best of 9.89 seconds was the world under-20 record and the Surinamese national record, however both are currently disqualifed.[2]
Early years
[edit | edit source]Asinga was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States in 2004. His parents are Tommy Asinga and Ngozi Mwanamwambwa who were both track and field athletes representing Suriname and Zambia respectively.[3] Asinga mostly grew up in the United States with a four-year period between the ages of 9 and 13 living Lusaka, Zambia with his mother.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Asinga attended Montverde Academy where he was selected as the Gatorade Florida Boys Track & Field Player of the Year in 2023. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on scholarship at Texas A&M University.[4]
Asinga switched his international athletics country of representation from the United States to Suriname in May 2023.[5]
Anti-doping rule violation
[edit | edit source]In August 2023, Asinga was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit after testing positive for the banned substance GW1516.[6] On May 27, 2024, he was officially banned for four years backdated to August 2023.[7] All of his results since July 18, 2023 were disqualified including his World Under-20 record for the 100m that he set at the South American Championships.[8] An appeal made to the Court of Arbitration for Sport was dismissed in October 2025.[9][10]
Assinga sued Gatorade in 2024, alleging that the cardarine had entered his system via contaminated Gatorade Recovery Gummies provided to him by the company.[11] In April 2025, a U.S. District Judge dismissed the case.[12]
Personal bests
[edit | edit source]| Event | Time | Wind (m/s) | Venue | Date | Notes |
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| 100 m | 9.89 | +0.8 | São Paulo, Brazil | 28 July 2023 | Disqualified |
| 9.83 w | +2.6 | Clermont, Florida, US | April 23, 2023 | Wind-assisted | |
| 200 m | 19.97 | +1.3 | Austin, Texas, US | 29 April 2023 | AU20R, NR |
| Indoor 60 m | 6.57 | — | Boston, US | 11 March 2023 | |
| Indoor 200 m | 20.48 | — | Boston, US | 12 March 2023 |
- Information from World Athletics profile.[13]
References
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External links
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- 2004 births
- Living people
- Surinamese men sprinters
- 21st-century Surinamese sportsmen
- Montverde Academy alumni
- American people of Surinamese descent
- American people of Zambian descent
- Zambian people of American descent
- Track and field athletes from Atlanta
- Doping cases in the sport of athletics
- American sportspeople in doping cases
- Surinamese sportspeople in doping cases
- South American sport of athletics biography stubs
- Surinamese sportspeople stubs