Tag: Yuliya Efimova

  • Russia’s four-time world swimming champion Efimova reportedly fails for meldonium

    Russia’s four-time world swimming champion Efimova reportedly fails for meldonium

    Update: The Russian Swimming Federation writes here about Efimova being temporarily suspended for a possible anti-doping rule violation. Four-time world swimming champion Yuliya Efimova has become the latest high profile Russian athlete to have failed a doping test for meldonium, it has been widely reported this evening. Efimova, the 100 metres breaststroke champion at last…

  • Ruta Meilutyte ‘disappointed’ by Russian rival Yuliya Efimova

    Ruta Meilutyte ‘disappointed’ by Russian rival Yuliya Efimova

    Plymouth-based Olympic champion Ruta Meilutytesays she no longer sees world champion Yuliya Efimova as an “honest competitor” following her doping ban. The breaststrokers shared one of the biggest rivalries in swimming, with Russian Efimova claiming two golds to Meilutyte’s one at the 2013 Worlds. Her 16-month ban ended in March, and the pair will meet at August’s World Championships in Efimova’s homeland.…

  • Rikke Møller Pedersen: The experience was taken away from me

    Rikke Møller Pedersen: The experience was taken away from me

    Read SwimmingWorld While many in the Russian swimming community found relief that Yuliya Efimova’s doping ban will end in time for her to make a run at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, not everyone in Europe is totally happy about the situation. Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark, who now officially stands as the European Short…

  • Yuliya Efimova thrown 16-month ban and lifelife to Kazan 2015 World Champs home defence

    Yuliya Efimova thrown 16-month ban and lifelife to Kazan 2015 World Champs home defence

    Read SwimVortex Yuliya Efimova, of Russia, has been thrown a lifeline to a home World Championships and the defence of two world titles in Kazan next year by a 16-month suspension in the wake of a positive doping test for a steroid. The ruling, which coincides with the start of the Russian Championships in Moscow,…

  • FINA provisionally suspends Russian swimmers Yuliya Efimova and Sergey Makov

    See fina.org Provisional Suspension – Yuliya Efimova (RUS) On October 31, 2013 a swimmer Yuliya Efimova (RUS) was tested positive to the substance 7-keto-DHEA (Class S.1.1.b Endogenous Anabolic Androgenic Steroids) with the occasion of the FINA out-of-competition doping control test in Los Angeles (USA). Following the results management process and in accordance with the FINA DC Rule 7.1.11, the…

  • Former Russia Head Coach Andrei Vorontsov reacts to Efimova’s positive doping test

    Read SwimVortex Heavy in heart, Dr. Vorontsov writes to SwimVortex.com of the sorrow he feels over Efimova’s case. He rejects the notion that Efimova may have cheated deliberately; regrets that she did not ask for advise; defends US coach Dave Salo in the Russia-USA divide; points a cautious finger at land-training ‘gurus’; and looks forward…

  • Yuliya Efimova’s medical advisor reacts to her positive doping test

    See DAASM Yuliya Efimova’s Medical Advisor and Conditioning Coach about Substance Abuse Dr. Dr. Homayun Gharavi, medical advisor and conditioning coach in professional Sports, on the breaking news about Yuliya Efimova’s positive doping test DAASM: You have been working with Ms. Efimova’s as her personal physician and conditioning coach for a few years now. What…

  • Yuliya Efimova tests positive for doping

    According to sovsport.ru (and originally Vedomosti), Russian breaststroker Yuliya Efimova tested positive for dehydroepiandrosterone in an unannounced test in October, while preparing for a FINA meet. Dehydroepiandrosterone is a natural steroid found in dietary supplements, that apparently is used to normalize body weight and balance hormones. According to sovsport.ru, the B-sample has not yet been…

  • Couch interview coming up

    Couch interview coming up

    As we had plenty of spare time around the Herning 2013 event itself (not), I went to Silkeborg and interviewed two very interesting persons for an hour or so. Sound and videos look okay, but I need to cut a bit, before posting.