This is the first set of Anti-Doping Rule Violation statistics under the revised WADA Code and third such report in its history since 2013.
The worrying sign for India is that the number of dope offenders has been increasing in the last three years.
India had 91 and 96 Anti-doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) in 2013 and 2014 respectively.
An ADRV is a doping offence committed by an athlete or athlete support person, which results in certain consequences or sanctions.
It is derived from adverse analytical findings (AAFs), commonly known as ‘positive’ results.
Of the 117 Indian offenders of 2015, two are non-analytical ADRVs, which refer to cases that do not involve the detection of a prohibited substance by a WADA-accredited laboratory.
Instead there are instances like failure to submit to a test, possession, use or trafficking of a prohibited substance by athletes and support personnel.
Out of the 115 analytical ADRVs, 78 are committed by male athletes, while 37 are by female.
Among individual sports, weightlifting has taken over athletics as the dirtiest with a whopping 56 Indian lifters (32 male and 24 female) punished for doping.
Athletics contributed the second highest number of dope offenders with 21 (14 male and 7 female).
This was followed by boxing (8), wrestling (8), cycling (4), kabaddi (4), aquatics (3), powerlifting (3), judo (2), wushu (2), rowing, bodybuilding (1), hockey (1), football (1) and street and ball hockey (1).
Among the NADOs, India’s National Anti—Doping Agency recorded 109 ADRVs, the second highest behind Russia’s (127).
The NADA took 5162 samples during 2015, out of which 110 tested positive for banned substances - AAFs. But there was no sanction in one case.
A total of 229,412 samples were received and analysed in 2015 by WADA-accredited laboratories worldwide. Out of these, 2,522 samples were reported as AAFs.
There were a total of 1,929 ADRVs (1,901 from athletes and 28 from athlete support personnel) out of which 1,649 are analytical findings and 280 from ‘evidence - based intelligence’ non - analytical findings.
Out of 1649 are Analytical ADRVs, 1304 cases (79 per cent) were of male and 345 female (21 per cent); 390 (24 per cent) were from out - of - competition tests and 1259 in - competition (76 per cent); 1644 urine and five blood.
The dope offenders belong to 80 sports/disciplines and 121 nationalities.
Among sports disciplines worldwide, bodybuilding overtook athletics in contributing the highest number of dope cheats with 270 such cases.
Athletics is second at 242, followed by weightlifting (239), cycling (200), powerlifting (110), football (108), rugby union (80), boxing (66), wrestling (57) and basketball (39).
Just like the increase in the number of Indian dope offenders, the worldwide figure also showed an upward trend.
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