Sheoran qualified for two events at the
2016 Summer Olympics: the
women's 400 metres and the
women's 4 × 400 metres relay. Sheoran qualified for the women's 400 metres event at the Olympics by clocking 51.48 seconds, her personal best time, at the National Inter-State Senior Athletics championships in
Hyderabad in July 2016. She finished well below the
Olympics qualification mark of 52.20 seconds and also surpassed the previous best time at the meet of 51.73 seconds set by
M. R. Poovamma in 2014. Sheoran's time in the heats of the same event was 52.35 seconds, while her previous personal best of 53.94 seconds was set in 2013 at
Chennai. Sheoran also qualified for the Olympics in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event. The quartet of Sheoran, Poovamma,
Tintu Lukka and
Anilda Thomas clocked 3:27.88 at
Bangalore in July 2016, finishing with the 12th best time in the world as top 16 relay teams qualified for the Olympics. Although at the
2017 Asian Athletics Championships Sheoran was awarded the gold medal in both the 400m and 4×400m races, she was subsequently disqualified and stripped of the medals in 2019 after being issued with an anti-doping ban. ==Doping bans==