By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
The Aquatics Integrity Unit (AQIU), a unit within World Aquatics which manages all ethical matters within World Aquatics including anti-doping, recently released its anti-doping statistics table for 2024.
Chinese swimmers were by and large the most tested group of the year, taking up the entire top 30 spots on the most tested list. Last spring, news broke of 23 Chinese swimmers failing doping tests before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but still being cleared to compete. In response, World Aquatics formed a committee that, among other actions, amped up testing of Chinese swimmers prior to and during the 2024 Paris Games.
No athlete underwent more tests than 21-year-old Tang Qianting, who won silver in the women’s 100 breaststroke at the Paris Olympic Games and claimed the long course World Championship title in the same event in Doha. Tang took 38 tests in the calendar year, averaging over three per month.
Just behind Tang, the most tested male of the year was fellow Chinese breaststroker Qin Haiyang. Qin holds the world record in the men’s 200 breaststroke, and last summer he helped China claim gold in the men’s 4×100 medley relay and silver in the mixed medley relay. The breaststroker received 35 tests throughout the year.
Qin was one of the swimmers who reportedly tested positive in 2021. At the Paris games, he said the increase in doping tests served as “tricks aim[ed] to disrupt our preparation rhythm and destroy our psychological defense.” China and Chinese swimmers have maintained a stance of innocence since the scandal first broke.
Five-time Paris Olympic medalist Regan Smith was the most tested non-Chinese swimmer. The American was tested 22 times last year. Teammates Kate Douglass and Gretchen Walsh came in just behind Smith with 20 tests each. Smith also topped the chart for most in-competition tests among all nationalities with 13 samples prior to the 2024 Short Course World Championships.
The most tested non-Chinese men were Italy’s Alberto Razzetti and Turkey’s Kuzey Tuncelli with 17 doping tests each.
Top Tested Swimmers In 2024
Ranking Chinese Women Non-Chinese Women Chinese Men Non-Chinese Men 1 Tang Qianting – 38 Regan Smith – 22 Qin Haiyang – 35 Kuzey Tuncelli – 17 2 Chen Luying – 34 Gretchen Walsh – 20 Dong Zhihao – 34 Alberto Razzetti – 17 3 Yu Yiting – 33 Kate Douglass – 20 Fei Liwei – 33 Leon Marchand – 16 4 Ye Shiwen – 33 Simona Quadrella – 16 Wang Shun – 32 Bobby Finke – 16 5 Yang Junxuan – 32 Summer McIntosh – 16 Wang Haoyu – 31 Carlos Garach Benito – 15 6 Liu Yaxin – 32 Katie Ledecky – 16 Sun Jiajun – 31 Noe Ponti – 14 7 Zhang Yufei – 30 Ana Marcela Cunha – 16 Pan Zhanle – 31 Carson Foster – 14 8 Li Bingjie – 30 Lilly King – 15 Xu Jiayu – 30 Ryan Murphy – 13 9 Yang Chang – 29 Katie Grimes – 14 Ji Xinjie – 30 Hunter Armstrong – 13 10 Wan Letian – 29 Katharine Berkoff – 14 Wang Changhao – 27 Guilherme Pereira Da Costa – 12
Overall, testing numbers and coverage went up from 2024 compared to 2023. In 2024, 5,568 samples were collected from 1,572 athletes, compared to 5,437 samples from 1,527 samples in the previous year. Their coverage across nationalities also expanded, from 88 countries in 2023 to 109 last year.
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