The Anti-Doping Database contains verified anti-doping rule violations registered for Russian Federation. This country profile provides aggregated statistics across sports, substances, testing types and sanction lengths, including trends over time and active sanctions.
In Russian Federation, the sport with the highest number of anti-doping rule violations is Track and field, while the most frequently detected substance is Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. The average suspension length for sanctioned athletes is 22 months.
In Russian Federation, 12% of the anti-doping rule violations in the database come from out-of-competition testing, while 88% are from in-competition tests.
The data below is generated dynamically from disciplinary decisions, published testing programs and official anti-doping authority reports. No individual athlete information is displayed on this page; the focus is entirely on high-level patterns and long-term trends.
The ranking above shows how Russian Federation compares to other countries in the Anti-Doping Database based on registered anti-doping rule violations.
Oral Turinabol is the brand name for Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, and is an anabolic steroid. It is a chlor-substituted version of methandrostenolone (Dianabol). Turinabol was the first original product of Jenapharm, an East German pharmaceutical company. The patent registration took place in 1961. The idea of combining the structures of 4-chlorotestosterone and methandrostenolone originated from the chemist Albert Stachowiak.[citation needed] At the time this represented a unique dissociation of anabolic and androgenic effects after oral administration. The product had been introduced for clinical use in 1965. Turinabol was the key steroid administered to approximately 10,000 athletes from East Germany (GDR). The doping program was run by the East German Government from about 1968 thru until 1989 when the Berlin wall was destroyed. The doping program was known as STASI 14.25. The doping was done in secret and it was only in the 1990's when Franke and Berendonk looked closely at the original archived information was the true scope of just how well-planned and successful the doping regime had been (in terms of medal success and world record performances). In 2011 Tim Sobolevsky and Grigory Rodchenkov published an updated method for analysing urine samples for detecting dehydrochloromethyltestosterone in the journal "The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology". This new method of detecting the drug is the reason for the high number of banned athletes since 2012 and onward. The new detection method can be read here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960076011002238 (Sources: Wikipedia, The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
The balance between In-Competition and Out-of-Competition testing reveals the maturity of a country's anti-doping program.
A higher proportion of OOC tests typically indicates a more proactive approach to deterring doping during training periods.
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