Russia loses 2 European swim titles for doping

Russia loses 2 European swim titles for doping
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Summary Efimova previously lost three individual medals when FINA banned her for 16 months in May.

LAUSANNE (AP) - Russia has been stripped of two relay gold medals from the 2013 European Short-Course Swimming Championships because of doping by three-time world champion Yuliya Efimova.

Swimming s governing body FINA says it disqualified all the relay teams Efimova competed on after her positive test for the steroid DHEA in October 2013 in Los Angeles.

FINA stripped Russia s titles in the 4x50-meter women s medley relay and mixed medley relay, both won in world record times last December in Herning, Denmark.

The 22-year-old Efimova is eligible to race next March, and when Russia hosts the world championships at Kazan from July 24 to Aug. 9.

She retains three long-course world titles and her London Olympics bronze medal in the 200 breaststroke.
 

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