World Athletics 2022 WA vs Yelena Churakova

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 multiple prohibited substances has been established in the 6 samples of the Athlete Yelena Churakova. These samples were provided by the Athlete between June and August 2012 and thereupon deliberately reported as negative by the Moscow laboratory.

As a result in June 2022 the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), on behalf of World Athletics, reported anti-doping rule violations against the Athlete for the use of the prohibited substances 1-Testosterone, Boldenone, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Metenolone, Methasterone and Oxandrolone.

After notification the Athlete failed to respond to the AIU communications. Without her response the AIU deems that she has waived her right to a hearing, to have accepted the asserted anti-doping rule violations and the sanction rendered by the AIU.

The AIU considers that there are aggravating circumstances present in this case and that the Athlete already had served a 2 year period of ineligibility until February 2015 for a violation committed in January 2013. The Athlete's current violation shall be considered as a single first violation together with the first violation committed in 2013.

Therefore the AIU decides on 11 January 2023 to impose an additional 2 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete, starting on the date of the decision. All the Athlete's results between 20 June 2012 and August 2012 are disqualified with all of the resulting consequences, including forfeiture of any medals, titles, points, prize money and prizes.

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11 January 2023
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World Athletics (WA)
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S1. Anabolic Agents
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1-Testosterone (17β-hydroxy-5α-androst-1-en-3-one)
Boldenone
Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (4-chloro-17β-hydroxy-17α-methylandrosta-1,4-dien-3-one)
Metenolone
Methasterone (17β-hydroxy-2α,17α-dimethyl-5α-androstan-3-one)
Oxandrolone
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