Heading into the 2016 Rio Olympic Games the issue of doping in the sport of swimming has been a constant storyline which begs the question: what would our sport look like if it was completely clean?
We’ve put together an analysis of what the sport would’ve looked like if all athletes who have had a doping ban were removed from the 2013 and 2015 World Championships. The point is not to take credit away from any of the athletes who have been removed from this list, or to point fingers. Each doping case and suspension is unique, and we at Swimswam are not deciding whether or not there was ill-intent in the taking of an illegal substance.
The idea of this list is to give a picture of how the lead-up to Rio would have been different had there have been a zero tolerance approach to doping.
MEN
2013 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Below are the edited results.
50m Freestyle
Cesar Cielo- Vlad Morozov
- George Bovell
- Nathan Adrian
*While Vlad Morozov was named in the McLaren report he has never failed a doping test to date.
100m Freestyle
- James Magnussen
- Jimmy Feigen
- Nathan Adrian
200m Freestyle
- Yannick Agnel
- Conor Dwyer
- Danila Izotov
400m Freestyle
Sun Yang- Kosuke Hagino
- Connor Jaeger
- Ryan Cochrane
800m Freestyle
Sun Yang- Michael McBroom
- Ryan Cochrane
- Connor Jaeger
1500m Freestyle
Sun Yang- Ryan Cochrane
- Gregorio Paltrinieri
- Connor Jaeger
50m Backstroke
- Camille Lacourt
- Matt Grevers/Jeremy Stravius
100m Backstroke
- Matt Grevers
- David Plummer
- Jeremy Stravius
200m Backstroke
- Ryan Lochte
- Radoslaw Kawecki
- Tyler Clary
50m Breaststroke
- Cameron van der Burgh
- Christian Sprenger
- Giulio Zorzi
100m Breaststroke
- Christian Sprenger
- Cameron van der Burgh
- Felipe Lima
200m Breaststroke
- Daniel Gyurta
- Marco Koch
- Matti Mattsson
50m Butterfly
Cesar Cielo- Eugene Godsoe
Frederick BousquetNicholas Santos- Andriy Hovorov
- Yauhen Tsurkin/ Steffen Deibler
100m Butterfly
- Chad le Clos
- Laszlo Cseh
- Konrad Czerniak
200m Butterfly
- Chad Le Clos
- Pawel Korzeniowski
- Wu Peng
200m IM
- Ryan Lochte
- Kosuke Hagino
- Thiago Pereira
400m IM
- Daiya Seto
- Chase Kalisz
- Thiago Pereira
4x100m Freestyle Relay
- France
- USA
Russia- Australia
4x200m Freestyle Relay
- USA
RussiaChina- France
- Japan
4x100m Medley Relay
- France
- Australia
- Japan
2015 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Below are the edited results:
50m Freestyle
- Florent Manaudou
- Nathan Adrian
- Bruno Fratus
100m Freestyle
Ning Zetao- Cameron McEvoy
- Frederico Grabich
- Santo Condorelli
200m Freestyle
- James Guy
Sun Yang- Paul Biedermann
- Ryan Lochte
400m Freestyle
Sun Yang- James Guy
- Ryan Cochrane
- Connor Jaeger
800m Freestyle
Sun Yang- Gregorio Paltrinieri
- Mack Horton
- Connor Jaeger
1500m Freestyle
- Gregorio Paltrinieri
- Connor Jaeger
- Ryan Cochrane
50m Backstroke
- Camille Lacourt
- Matt Grevers
- Ben Treffers
100m Backstroke
- Mitch Larkin
- Camille Lacourt
- Matt Grevers
200m Backstroke
- Mitch Larkin
- Radoslaw Kawecki
- Evgeny Rylov
50m Breaststroke
- Adam Peaty
- Cameron van der Burgh
- Kevin Cordes
100m Breaststroke
- Adam Peaty
- Cameron van der Burgh
- Ross Murdoch
200m Breaststroke
- Marco Koch
- Kevin Cordes
- Daniel Gyurta
50m Butterfly
- Florent Manaudou
- Nicholas Santos
- Laszlo Cseh/Konrad Czerniak
100m Butterfly
- Chad le Clos
- Laszlo Cseh
- Joseph Schooling
200m Butterfly
- Laszlo Cseh
- Chad le CLos
- Jan Switkowski
200m IM
- Ryan Lochte
- Thiago Pereira
- Wang Shun
400m IM
- Daiya Seto
- David Verraszto
- Chase Kalisz
4x100m Freestyle Relay
- France
Russia- Italy
- Brazil
4x200m Freestyle Relay
- Britain
- USA
- Australia
4x100m Medley Relay
- USA
- Australia
- France
MEN EFFECTED BY DOPING IN INDIVIDUAL EVENTS:
- Vlad Morozov (Russia): Silver -> Gold
- George Bovell (Trinidad): Bronze -> Silver
- Nathan Adrian (USA): +1 Bronze
- Kosuke Hagino (Japan): Silver -> Gold
- Connor Jaeger (USA): Bronze -> Silver, +4 Bronze
- Ryan Cochrane (Canada): Bronze -> Silver, Silver -> Gold, Bronze -> Silver, +1 Bronze
- Michael McBroom (USA) : Silver -> Gold
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (Italy): Bronze -> Silver, Silver -> Gold
- Eugene Godsoe (USA): Silver -> Gold
- Andriy Hovorov (Ukraine): +1 Silver
- Steffen Deibler (Germany): +1 Bronze
- Yauhen Tsurkin (Belarus): +1 Bronze
- Evgeny Rylov (Russia): Bronze -> Silver
- Mack Horton (Australia): Bronze -> Silver
- James Guy (Britain): Silver -> Gold
- Cameron McEvoy (Australia): Silver -> Gold
- Frederico Grabich (Argentina): Bronze -> Silver
- Santo Condorelli (Canada): +1 Bronze
- Paul Biedermann (Germany): Bronze -> Silver
WOMEN
2013 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Below are the edited results.
50m Freestyle
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo
- Cate Campbell
- Fran Halsall
100m Freestyle
- Cate Campbell
- Sarah Sjostrom
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo
200m Freestyle
- Yannick Agnel
- Conor Dwyer
- Danila Izotov
400m Freestyle
- Missy Franjlin
- Frederica Pellegrini
- Camille Muffat
800m Freestyle
- Katie Ledecky
- Melanie Costa
- Lauren Boyle
1500m Freestyle
- Katie Ledecky
- Lotte Friis
- Lauren Boyle
50m Backstroke
- Zhao Jing
- Fu Yuanhui
- Aya Terakawa
100m Backstroke
- Missy Franklin
- Emily Seebohm
- Aya Terakawa
200m Backstroke
- Missy Franklin
- Belinda Hocking
- Hilary Caldwell
50m Breaststroke
Yulia Efimova- Ruta Meilutyte
Jessica Hardy- Breeja Larson
- Jennie Johansson
100m Breaststroke
- Ruta Meilutyte
Yulia EfimovaJessica Hardy- Rikke Moller Pedersen
- Breeja Larson
200m Breaststroke
Yulia Efimova- Rikke Moller Pedersen
- Micah Lawrence
- Rie Kaneto
50m Butterfly
- Jeanette Ottesen
- Lu Ying
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo
100m Butterfly
- Sarah Sjostrom
- Alica Coutts
- Dana Vollmer
200m Butterfly
- Liu Zige
- Mireia Belmonte
- Katinka Hosszu
200m IM
- Katinka Hosszu
- Alicia Coutts
- Mireia Belmonte
400m IM
- Katinka Hosszu
- Mereia Belmonte
- Elizabeth Beisel
4x100m Freestyle Relay
- USA
- Australia
- Netherlands
4x200m Freestyle Relay
- USA
- Australia
- France
4x100m Medley Relay
USA- Australia
Russia- China
- Japan
2015 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Below are the edited results:
50m Freestyle
- Bronte Campbell
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo
- Sarah Sjostrom
100m Freestyle
- Bronte Campbell
- Sarah Sjostrom
- Cate Campbell
200m Freestyle
- Katie Ledecky
- Frederica Pellegrini
- Missy Franklin
400m Freestyle
- Katie Ledecky
- Sharan van Rowendaal
- Jessica Ashwood
800m Freestyle
- Katie Ledecky
- Lauren Boyle
- Jazz Carlin
1500m Freestyle
- Katie Ledecky
- Lauren Boyle
- Boglarka Kapas
50m Backstroke
- Fu Yuanhui
- Etiene Medeiros
- Liu Xiang
100m Backstroke
- Emily Seebohm
- Madison Wilson
- Mie Nielsen
200m Backstroke
- Emily Seebohm
- Missy franklin
- Katinka Hosszu
50m Breaststroke
- Jennie Johansson
- Alia Atkinson
Yulia Efimova- Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir
100m Breaststroke
Yulia Efimova- Ruta Meilutyte
- Alia Atkinson
- Kanako Watanabe
200m Breaststroke
- Kanako Watanabe
- Micah Lawrence
- Jessica Vall/Rikke Moller Pedersen/Shi Jinglin
50m Butterfly
- Sarah Sjostrom
- Jeanette Ottesen
- Lu Ying
100m Butterfly
- Sarah Sjostrom
- Jeanette Ottesen
- Lu Ying
200m Butterfly
- Natsumi Hoshi
- Cammile Adams
- Zhang Yufei
200m IM
- Katinka Hosszu
- Kanako Watanabe
- Siobhan-Marie O’Connor
400m IM
- Katinka Hosszu
- Maya DiRado
- Emily Overholt
4x100m Freestyle Relay
- Australia
- Netherlands
- USA
4x200m Freestyle Relay
- USA
- Italy
- China
4x100m Medley Relay
- China
- Sweden
- Australia
WOMEN EFFECTED BY DOPING IN INDIVIDUAL EVENTS:
- Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania): Silver -> Gold, Silver -> Gold
- Breeja Larson (USA): +1 Silver, +1 Bronze
- Rikke Moller Pedersen (Denmark): Silver -> Gold, +1 Silver
- Micah Lawrence (USA): Bronze -> Silver
- Rie Kaneto (Japan): +1 Bronze
- Liu Xiang (China): Bronze -> Silver
- Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir (Iceland): +1 Bronze
- Alia Atkinson (Jamaica): Silver -> Bronze
- Kanako Watanabe (Japan): +1 Bronze
Ruta Meilutyte came 4th in 50 Breast in Kazan not Luthersdottir
Jessica Hardy swam US womens medley relay in 2013, so….
You took Santos 50 fly 2013 medal but not 2015 but I think he never was convicted of doping right? Etiene were on trial this year but not convicted. Also did not hardy Swam on us medley relay on 2013?
And I never knew radoslaw was convicted either
Santos was in the same situation of Cielo. Both doped in 2011 and were acquitted. Medeiros apparently nobody knows because his case is being hidden. Does anyone have any information about it?
Why Kawecki? He never doped
Minor point but results were “affected” by the doping ????
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