Tokyo Olympian Valeriya Salamatina<\/strong> of Russia has been banned for two years after testing positive for furosemide, the International Testing Agency (ITA) has announced.<\/p>\n Salamatina produced an adverse analytical finding for the banned substance following an out-of-competition test on 9 March 2025 and has accepted the suspension which runs from\u00a08 May 2025 to 7 May 2027. In addition, all her competitive results from 9 March 2025 are disqualified.<\/p>\n Furosemide is a diuretic that can be used as a masking agent and for rapid weight loss.<\/p>\n Salamatina won double silver at the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow in the women’s and mixed 4×2 relays and swam the second leg of the 4×2 in Tokyo in 2021 where the quartet finished fifth under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).<\/p>\n A statement from the ITA read:<\/p>\n “The ITA reports that the swimmer Valeriya Salamatina has agreed\u00b9 \u00a0to the consequences for her anti-doping rule violation (ADRV).<\/p>\n “The swimmer provided a sample collected by the ITA during an unannouced out-of-competiton doping control performed on 9 March 2025, which yielded an adverse analytical finding\u00b2 (AAF) for furosemide. Furosemide is listed under class S5 diuretics and masking agents according to the prohibited list of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). \u00a0It is prohibited at all times (in- and out-of-competition) and is classified as a specified substance. Furosemide can be used by athletes to excrete water for rapid weight loss.<\/p>\n “The athlete did not challenge the ADRV and agreed with the consequences proposed by the ITA. Accordingly, the case was resolved via and acceptance of consequences.<\/p>\n “The athlete\u2019s period of ineligibility is from 8 May 2025 until 7 May 2027. In addition, all the athlete\u2019s competitive results as from 9 March 2025 are disqualified.<\/p>\n “The decision may be challenged before the appeal division of the Court of Arbitration of Sport by the parties with a right of appeal in accordance with Article 13.2.3 of the World Aquatics anti-doping rules.<\/p>\n “The ITA will not comment further on this case.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tokyo Olympian Valeriya Salamatina Banned For Two Years After Positive Drugs Test Tokyo Olympian Valeriya Salamatina of Russia has been banned for two years after testing positive for furosemide, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":382585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074],"tags":[70382,7419,54160,136120],"class_list":["post-612396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","tag-international-testing-agency","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-valeriia-salamatina","tag-valeriya-salamatina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n