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

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Oh Han-namVolleyball
Masushi OuchiWeightliftingStimulant

Kim Joong-iIWeightliftingStimulant

1994 Hiroshima

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Han QingAthleticsDihydrotestosterone
Zhang LeiCanoeingDihydrotestosterone

Qiu SuorenCanoeingDihydrotestosterone
Wang YanCyclingDihydrotestosterone
Fu YongSwimmingDihydrotestosterone
Hu BinSwimmingDihydrotestosterone
Lü BinSwimmingDihydrotestosterone




Xiong GuomingSwimmingDihydrotestosterone



Yang AihuaSwimmingDihydrotestosterone
Zhang BinSwimmingDihydrotestosterone
Zhou GuanbinSwimmingDihydrotestosterone

1998 Bangkok

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Abdullah Sabt GhulamAthleticsEphedrine
Fakhruddin AbdulmajidKarateEphedrine
Ayed KhawaldehWeightliftingTriamterene
Jaber Al-AjmiWeightliftingNandrolone

2002 Busan

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Youssef El-ZeinBodybuildingMissed the test

2006 Doha

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Santhi SoundarajanAthleticsMale hormone
Sayed Faisal HusainBodybuilding
Faez Abdul-HassanBodybuildingNandrolone
Kim Myong-hunBodybuilding
Salem Ghanem Al-ShamsiBodybuilding
Kyi Kyi ThanWeightliftingDiuretic
Mya Sanda OoWeightliftingMetabolite
Elmira RamilevaWeightliftingStanozolol
Aleksandr UrinovWeightliftingCannabis

2010 Guangzhou

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Suresh SathyaAthleticsNandrolone
Ahmed DheebAthleticsTestosterone
Abdelnasser AwajnaAthleticsNorandrosterone
Masoud RigiBoxingNandrolone
Shokir MuminovJudoMethylhexanamine
Jakhongir MuminovWrestlingMethylhexanamine

2014 Incheon

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Betlhem DesalegnAthleticsBiological passport abnormalities
Khurshed BeknazarovFootballMethylhexanamine
Nouraddin Al-KurdiKarateClenbuterol
Yi SophanySoft tennisSibutramine
Park Tae-hwanSwimmingNebido




Mohammed JassimWeightliftingEtiocholanolone
Tai Cheau XuenWushuSibutramine

2018 Jakarta–Palembang

NameNOCSportBanned substanceMedalsRef
Kemi AdekoyaAthleticsStanozolol
Sanjivani JadhavAthleticsProbenecid
Nirmala SheoranAthleticsDrostanolone and Metenolone
Kumush YuldashovaKurashStanozolol
Pürevdorjiin OrkhonWrestlingStanozolol
Rüstem NazarowWrestlingFurosemide