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16th March 2018
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The Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) has annulled the results of all relay races that Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova took part in for the duration of her 16-month ban for doping, which runs from 31 October 2013 to 28 February 2015. The decision means that two world records, set at the 2013 LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships in Denmark, will be annulled.
A world record set by the mixed 4×50 Russian Medley team at the 2013 LEN European Short Course Swimming Championship on 13 December is annulled, as is a world record set by the 4×50 Russian Women’s Medley team on 15 December. The decision also means that any results achieved by the mixed 4×50 Russian Medley team at two November 2013 FINA Swimming World Cup meets are annulled. This includes second place on 5 November in Singapore and second place at 9 November in Tokyo.
You can view the FINA Doping Panel’s 3 November decision here. The Russian Swimming Federation has accepted the decision and has indicated that it will not appeal. FINA initially banned Efimova for 16 months on 12 May, after a 31 October 2013 out-of-competition sample tested positive for 7-keto DHEA, a prohibited anabolic agent under Class S1 of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Prohibited List. The FINA Doping Panel decision to ban her for 16 months can be accessed here.
On 5 November, FINA separately announced that its Doping Control Panel had imposed six months’ ineligibility on Venezuelan swimmer Johndry Segovia Ramos, after a positive test for methylhexaneamine on 3 November 2012 at the Juegos Bolivarianos de Playa, held in Lima, Peru. According to the FINA Doping Control Rule 10.4, the FINA Doping Panel imposed the six month ban for Ramos’s first offence from 3 November 2012, meaning that the ban ended on 3 May 2013. All results were forfeited during that period. You can read the Doping Panel’s 10 October decision here.
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