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

1974 Tehran

Main article: 1974 Asian Games

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

Main article: 1994 Asian Games

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

Main article: 1998 Asian Games

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

Main article: 2002 Asian Games

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

2006 Doha

Main article: 2006 Asian Games

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

Main article: 2010 Asian Games

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

Main article: 2014 Asian Games

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 Jasim	Iraq	Weightlifting	Etiocholanolone		[22]
Tai Cheau Xuen	Malaysia	Wushu	Sibutramine	(Women's nanquan)	[25]

2018 Jakarta–Palembang

Main article: 2018 Asian Games

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 & Metenolone		[28]
Kim Hye-song	North Korea	Athletics	Methylprednisolone	(Women's marathon)	[29]
Nursultan Alymkulov	Kyrgyzstan	Ju-jitsu	Metandienone & 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

Main article: 2022 Asian Games

Name	NOC	Sport	Banned substance	Medals	Ref
Yousef Al-Asiri	Saudi Arabia	Athletics	Darbepoetin		[34]
Wesam Al-Farsi	Saudi Arabia	Athletics	Darbepoetin		[35]
Sami Bzai	Jordan	Basketball	DHCMT	(Men)	[36]
Justin Brownlee	Philippines	Basketball	THC	(Men)	[37]
Mohammad Khaibar Nooristani	Afghanistan	Boxing	19-Norandrosterone & Clostebol		[38]
Parveen Hooda	India	Boxing	Whereabouts failure	(Women's 57 kg)	[39]
Baatarsükhiin Chinzorig	Mongolia	Boxing	Metandienone	(Men's 63.5 kg)	[40]
Ariana Evangelista	Philippines	Cycling	Erythropoietin		[41]
Bilal Al-Saadi	Qatar	Cycling	Erythropoietin		[42]
Aleksey Fomovskiy	Uzbekistan	Cycling	Anabolic steroids		[43]
Tejen Tejenow	Turkmenistan	Kurash	DHCMT & Methasterone	(Men's +90 kg)	[44]
Buyandelgeriin Erdenezul	Mongolia	Weightlifting	Drostanolone		[45]

See also

• Asia portal
• Sports portal

• Doping at the Olympics

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