FINA officially invalidates Russian relay world records featuring Yuliya Efimova

As of this week, FINA has wiped two Russian relay world records off the books due to the failed drug test by Yuliya Efimova.

FINA, the world governing body for swimming, nullified four different high-placing swims for the Russian federation, the next steps in the doping case against Efimova.

Three of the records come in the mixed 4×50 medley relay and the fourth from the women’s 4×50 medley relay. All four records are in short course meters:

• Mixed 4×50 medley relay from 2013 Singapore World Cup (Nov. 5-6, 2013)
  • Efimova, Vlad Morozov, Viacheslav Prudnikov and Elizaveta Bazarova
  • Placed second: 1:40.84
• Mixed 4×50 medley relay from 2013 Tokyo World Cup (Nov 9-10, 2013)
  • Efimova, Morozov, Prudnikov, Bazarova
  • Placed second: 1:39.69
• Mixed 4×50 medley relay from 2013 Short Course European Championships (Dec. 12-15, 2013)
  • Efimova, Vitaly Melnikov, Svetlana Chimrova and Morozov
  • World record and European Championship: 1:37.63
• Women’s 4×50 medley relay from 2013 Short Course European Championships (Dec. 12-15, 2013)
  • Efimova, Daria Ustinova, Chimrova and Rozaliya Nasretdinova
  • World record and European Championship: 1:44.67

Efimova, who tested positive last fall, has already been stripped of 5 European Championships medals and 2 world records. This adds two more European Championships medals and two more world records to that penalty.

The FINA decision calls for all relay members to lose any “medal, points, prizes or records” achieved by the swims, so her teammates will also be stripped of their medals from the relays. The two swims from the World Cup don’t come with any forfeiture of prize money as the World Cup does not give out prize money or series points for the mixed relays.

You can read the full FINA decision here.