Doping at the Asian Games

What follows is a list of all the athletes that have tested positive for a banned substance either during or before an Asian Games in which they competed. Any medals listed were revoked.

Asian Games

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1974 Tehran

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Oh Han-nam   South Korea Volleyball   (Men) [1]
Masushi Ouchi   Japan Weightlifting Stimulant   (Men's 90 kg)
  (Men's snatch 90 kg)
  (Men's clean & jerk 90 kg)
[2]
Kim Joong-iI   North Korea Weightlifting Stimulant   (Men's 110 kg)
  (Men's snatch 110 kg)
  (Men's clean & jerk 110 kg)
[3]

1994 Hiroshima

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Han Qing   China Athletics Dihydrotestosterone   (Women's 400 m hurdles) [4]
Zhang Lei   China Canoeing Dihydrotestosterone   (Men's C-1 500 m)
  (Men's C-1 1000 m)
  (Men's C-2 500 m)
[4]
Qiu Suoren   China Canoeing Dihydrotestosterone   (Men's C-2 1000 m) [4]
Wang Yan   China Cycling Dihydrotestosterone   (Women's sprint) [4]
Sirisak Kadalee   Thailand Football Stimulant [5]
Fu Yong   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Men's 400 m individual medley) [6]
Hu Bin   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Men's 50 m freestyle) [6]
Lü Bin   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Women's 50 m freestyle)
  (Women's 200 m freestyle)
  (Women's 200 m individual medley)
  (Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay)
  (Women's 100 m freestyle)
  (Women's 100 m backstroke)
[6]
Xiong Guoming   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Men's 200 m freestyle)
  (Men's 200 m individual medley)
  (Men's 400 m individual medley)
  (Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay)
  (Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay)
[6]
Yang Aihua   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Women's 400 m freestyle) [6]
Zhang Bin   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Men's 200 m butterfly) [6]
Zhou Guanbin   China Swimming Dihydrotestosterone   (Women's 400 m freestyle)
  (Women's 800 m freestyle)
[6]

1998 Bangkok

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Abdullah Sabt Ghulam   United Arab Emirates Athletics Ephedrine [7]
Fakhruddin Abdulmajid   United Arab Emirates Karate Ephedrine   (Men's kumite 75 kg) [7]
Ayed Khawaldeh   Jordan Weightlifting Triamterene [8]
Jaber Al-Ajmi   Kuwait Weightlifting Nandrolone [8]

2002 Busan

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Youssef El-Zein   Lebanon Bodybuilding Missed the test   (Men's 90 kg) [9]

2006 Doha

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Santhi Soundarajan   India Athletics Male hormone   (Women's 800 m) [10]
Sayed Faisal Husain   Bahrain Bodybuilding   (Men's 70 kg) [11]
Faez Abdul-Hassan   Iraq Bodybuilding Nandrolone [12]
Kim Myong-hun   South Korea Bodybuilding   (Men's 90 kg) [13]
Salem Ghanem Al-Shamsi   United Arab Emirates Bodybuilding [14]
Kyi Kyi Than   Myanmar Weightlifting Diuretic [12]
Mya Sanda Oo   Myanmar Weightlifting Metabolite   (Women's 75 kg) [12]
Elmira Ramileva   Uzbekistan Weightlifting Stanozolol [12]
Aleksandr Urinov   Uzbekistan Weightlifting Cannabis [12]

2010 Guangzhou

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Suresh Sathya   India Athletics Nandrolone [15]
Ahmed Dheeb   Qatar Athletics Testosterone   (Men's discus throw) [16]
Abdelnasser Awajna   Palestine Athletics Norandrosterone [16]
Masoud Rigi   Iran Boxing Nandrolone [17]
Shokir Muminov   Uzbekistan Judo Methylhexanamine   (Men's 81 kg) [18]
Jakhongir Muminov   Uzbekistan Wrestling Methylhexanamine [19]

2014 Incheon

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Betlhem Desalegn   United Arab Emirates Athletics Biological passport abnormalities [20]
Khurshed Beknazarov   Tajikistan Football Methylhexanamine [21]
Nouraddin Al-Kurdi   Syria Karate Clenbuterol [22]
Yi Sophany   Cambodia Soft tennis Sibutramine [23]
Park Tae-hwan   South Korea Swimming Nebido   (Men's 100 m freestyle)
  (Men's 200 m freestyle)
  (Men's 400 m freestyle)
  (Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay)
  (Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay)
  (Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay)
[24]
Mohammed Jassim   Iraq Weightlifting Etiocholanolone [22]
Tai Cheau Xuen   Malaysia Wushu Sibutramine   (Women's nanquan) [25]

2018 Jakarta–Palembang

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Kemi Adekoya   Bahrain Athletics Stanozolol   (Women's 400 m hurdles)
  (Mixed 4 × 400 m relay)
[26]
Hassan Chani   Bahrain Athletics Biological passport abnormalities   (Men's 10,000 m) [27]
Sanjivani Jadhav   India Athletics Probenecid [26]
Nirmala Sheoran   India Athletics Drostanolone and Metenolone [28]
Kim Hye-song   North Korea Athletics Methylprednisolone   (Women's marathon) [29]
Nursultan Alymkulov   Kyrgyzstan Ju-jitsu Metandienone and GW501516   (Men's ne-waza 77 kg) [30]
Kumush Yuldashova   Uzbekistan Kurash Stanozolol   (Women's 78 kg) [31]
Pürevdorjiin Orkhon   Mongolia Wrestling Stanozolol   (Women's freestyle 62 kg) [32]
Rüstem Nazarow   Turkmenistan Wrestling Furosemide [33]

2022 Hangzhou

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Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Justin Brownlee   Philippines Basketball 11-Nor-9-carboxy-THC [34]
Sami Bzai   Jordan Basketball Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone [34]
Ariana Evangelista   Philippines Cycling Erythropoietin [35]
Chinzorig Baatarsukh   Mongolia Boxing Metandienone [36]
Adil Hussain   Pakistan Kabaddi 19-Norandrosterone [36]
  • B-sample tests pending

See also

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References

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