In a press release today, FINA reports that no anti-doping rule violation was registered at the 15th FINA World Championships, held from July 19 to August 4, 2013 in Barcelona (ESP), after a total of 820 tests.
The numbers of the Anti-Doping programme for this competition included:
IN COMPETITION
- 378 urine tests (including 69 EPO screenings)
- 84 blood tests
PRE COMPETITION
- 358 blood tests (in the frame of the Athlete Biological Passport)
Besides these numbers, the most meaningful figures related to FINA’s major showcase
were:
- 177 participating countries
- 2195 athletes and 1835 officials
- 6 aquatic disciplines (with High Diving for the first time on the programme) in 4 venues – Palau Sant Jordi (Swimming and Synchronised Swimming), Montjuic Municipal Pool (Diving), Picornell Pool (Water Polo) and Port Vell (Open Water Swimming and High Diving)
- 600 written press journalists & photographers & 650 TV crew professionals
- 68 events and 204 medals
- 31 nations on the podium
- 280,000 spectators on site during the 16-day competition
- 6 World Records in Swimming
- 211 territories covered by TV
- 102% increase of followers on the Twitter feed @fina1908 (from June 17 to the end of the championships)
- 83% increase of visits on www.fina.org (if compared with Shanghai 2011) and 75%Â improvement on page views
- 70,000 daily people who saw posts and other activities on FINA Facebook page
- 13,000 news and articles on the Spanish media during the Championships
- US$ 3.2 million in prize money to the best six athletes in all events
