Related case:
IOC 2016 IOC vs Anastasia Kapachinskaya
August 15, 2016
In 2016, Professor Richard McLaren issued two reports about systemic doping in Russia. These reports identified a significant number of Russian athletes who were involved in, or benefitted from, the doping schemes and practices that he uncovered.
Hereafter in January 2019 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recovered the internal database of the Moscow Laboratory (LIMS). Following investigation of allegations of organized doping practices, and in particular of the LIMS, WADA provided international federations with investigation reports on the athletes implicated in these organized doping practices.
These investigation reports revealed that prohibited substances had been established in the sample of the Athlete Anastasiya Kapachinskaya. This sample was provided by the Athlete in 2012 and thereupon deliberately reported as negative by the Moscow laboratory.
As a result in May 2022 the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), on behalf of World Athletics, reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete for the use of the prohibited substances 6-oxo, Androstatrienedione and Boldenone in 2012.
After notification the Athlete failed to respond to the AIU communications. Without the Athlete's response the AIU deems that she has waived her right to a hearing, to have accepted the asserted anti-doping rule violation and the sanction rendered by the AIU.
The AIU determines that there are aggravating circumstances present in this case whereas she already had served a 4 year period of ineligibility until June 2020 for violations committed in August 2008 and in August 2011.
The Athlete's current violation shall be considered as a single first violation together with the first violations committed in 2008 and in 2011. All the Athlete's results obtained since August 2008 onwards were already disqualified as a result of the first violations.
Therefore the AIU decides on 11 January 2023 that the Athlete has commited an anti-doping rule violation. No further consequences shall be imposed for this anti-doping rule violation.
