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Yuliya Yefimova

File:Julia Efimova in Budapest.jpg
Personal information
Full name	Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova
National team	Russia
Born	(1992-04-03) 3 April 1992 (age 32) Grozny, Russia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Club	Volgodonsk Swim Club
Coach	Dave Salo
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Russia Olympic Games 2012 London 200 m breaststroke World Championships (LC) 2009 Rome 50 m breaststroke 2013 Barcelona 50 m breaststroke 2013 Barcelona 200 m breaststroke 2015 Kazan 100 m breaststroke 2009 Rome 100 m breaststroke 2011 Shanghai 50 m breaststroke 2011 Shanghai 200 m breaststroke 2013 Barcelona 100 m breaststroke 2013 Barcelona 4×100 m medley 2015 Kazan 50 m breaststroke World Championships (SC) 2008 Manchester 200 m breaststroke European Championships (LC) 2008 Eindhoven 200 m breaststroke 2010 Budapest 100 m breaststroke 2010 Budapest 50 m breaststroke 2008 Eindhoven 50 m breaststroke 2008 Eindhoven 4×100 m medley European Championships (SC) 2007 Debrecen 50 m breaststroke 2007 Debrecen 100 m breaststroke 2007 Debrecen 200 m breaststroke Disqualified 2013 Herning 50 m breaststroke Disqualified 2013 Herning 200 m breaststroke Disqualified 2013 Herning 4×50 m medley Disqualified 2013 Herning 4×50 m mixed medley Disqualified 2013 Herning 100 m breaststroke Universiade 2013 Kazan 50 m breaststroke 2013 Kazan 100 m breaststroke 2013 Kazan 200 m breaststroke 2013 Kazan 4×100 m medley

Yuliya Andreyevna Yefimova (Template:Lang-ru), also romanized Efimova, (born 3 April 1992) is a Russian competitive swimmer. Yefimova competed for Russia at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics. In London she won the bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke.

Yefimova beat the long course 50 m breaststroke world record at the Barcelona 2013 FINA World Championships, as well as winning the gold medal in the 50 m and 200 m breaststroke races at the same Championships. She held the world records in short course 50 m and 200 m breaststroke.

Doping scandals

In 2014, Yefimova was reported to have failed a drug test. Her alleged positive test was for DHEA, an endogenous steroid hormone banned in professional sports. On May 13, 2014 she was disqualified from October 31, 2013 until February 28, 2015. She was also stripped of her results and medals at the 2013 European Short Course Championships. Her world records are also invalidated.

Yefimova also was reported to have tested positive for meldonium in March 2016. She was provisionally banned by the International Swimming Federation (FINA). This suspension was later put on hold while the World Anti-Doping Agency investigates the drug.

2016 Olympics controversy

Yefimova participation in the 2016 Summer Olympics was controversial in light of an ongoing scandal of doping within the Russian Olympic Team. She was initially banned from participation due to the previous doping suspensions, but this ban was overturned by the International Olympic Committee, allowing her to compete in the 100 m breast stroke. Many American athletes take L-carnitine. This medicine is much more effective than meldonium, but for some reason it is allowed. The question arises, why meldonium was banned but L-carnitine wasn't.

Olympic results

• Beijing 2008:
  • Women's 100 Metres breaststroke Final, 4th
  • Women's 200 metres breaststroke Final, 5th
  • Women's 4 x 100 Metres Medley Relay Final, 5th
• London 2012:
  • Women's 100 Metres breaststroke Final, 7th
  • Women's 200 Metres breaststroke Final, 3rd
  • Women's 4 x 100 Metres Medley Relay Final, 4th

See also

• World record progression 50 metres breaststroke

References

1. ^ Iuliia Efimova's profile at the Olympic Games 2012 official site
2. "200-Breast-W" (PDF). LEN. Retrieved 2008-03-31.
3. "Omega Timing - Results - FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 Tokyo 7/8 Tokyo Japan 11/9/2013 - 11/10/2013". OMEGA Timing. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
4. "2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships. Results Day 2" (PDF). LEN. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
5. Russian Olympic Medal-Winning Swimmer Efimova Fails Doping Test – Report
6. "Russian swimmer Yulia Yefimova disqualified for 1 year and 4 months for doping". ITAR-TASS. May 13, 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
7. Press, Associated (16 April 2016). "FINA maintain suspension of Russian breaststroke swimmer Yulia Efimova after testing positive for meldonium". The Daily Mail. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
8. ^ Press, Associated (6 August 2016). "Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova on 100m breaststroke start list". NBC. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
9. Baldwin, Alan (25 July 2016). "Efimova, six other Russians ruled out of Rio". Reuters. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
10. Mendola, Nicholas (6 August 2016). "IOC rules Yulia Efimova eligible; Russian will swim 100m breaststroke Sunday". NBC Sports. Retrieved 7 August 2016.

External links

• Yuliya Yefimova at World Aquatics
• Yuliya Efimova video world record 50m Breaststroke from the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona.

• 1992 births
• Living people
• Russian female swimmers
• Female breaststroke swimmers
• Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic swimmers of Russia
• People from Taganrog
• Former world record holders in swimming
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
• Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
• Olympic medalists in swimming
• Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
• European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
• Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Russian sportspeople in doping cases
• Doping cases in swimming