Russian Athletics Federation#Doping allegations and determinations

The RAF is the national member federation for Russia in World Athletics and the European Athletic Association (EAA). Due to doping allegations, its participation in both organisations has been suspended since 2015.{{cite web|title=Statement from European Athletics|url=http://www.european-athletics.org/news/article=statement-from-european-athletics-1277982/index.html|publisher=European Athletics Association|access-date=16 November 2015}}

The RAF maintains the Russian records in athletics.

{{See also|Doping in Russia}}

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In December 2014, the German broadcaster ARD made wide-ranging allegations of doping in Russian athletics and high-level cover-ups of this. Alleging state involvement in systematic cheating, the documentary accused Russia of an "East German-style" doping programme.{{cite news|last1=Olterman|first1=Philip|title=Russia accused of athletics doping cover-up on German TV|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/dec/03/russia-accused-athletics-doping-cover-up-olympics|access-date=9 November 2015|work=Guardian|date=3 December 2014}} These resulted in then ARAF President Valentin Balakhnichev's resignation as Treasurer of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jan/14/elena-lashmanova-iaaf-investigating-race-ban|title=IAAF investigating Russian Olympic gold medallist Elena Lashmanova|work=The Guardian|date=14 January 2015 }}

In response to this, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) commissioned an investigation, the report of which was published on 9 November 2015. The 323-page document, described as "damning" by The Guardian,{{cite news|title=Wada calls for Russia to be banned from athletics in doping report|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/09/wada-iaaf-russia-dick-pound-banned|access-date=9 November 2015|work=The Guardian|date=9 November 2015}} reported widespread doping and large-scale cover ups by the authorities. It recommended that ARAF be declared non-compliant with respect to the World Anti-Doping Code, and recommended that the International Olympic Committee not accept any entries from ARAF until compliance was reached.{{cite web|title=Independent Commission – Report 1|url=https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/world-anti-doping-program/independent-commission-report-1|publisher=World Anti-Doping Agency|access-date=9 November 2015|date=9 November 2015}}{{cite news|title=Athletics doping: Wada commission recommends Russia suspension|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/34765444|access-date=9 November 2015|work=BBC|date=9 November 2015}} On 13 November, the IAAF council overwhelmingly voted 22–1 in favour of prohibiting Russia from world sports events with immediate effect.{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/iaaf-araf-suspended|title=IAAF provisionally suspends Russian Member Federation ARAF|date=13 November 2015|publisher=IAAF}} Under other penalties against the ARAF, Russia has been also prohibited from hosting the 2016 World Race Walking Team Championships (Cheboksary) and 2016 World Junior Championships (Kazan), and ARAF must entrust doping cases to Court of Arbitration for Sport.

ARAF accepted the indefinite IAAF suspension and did not request a hearing.{{cite news|title=Russia accepts full, indefinite ban from world athletics over doping scandal|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/26/russia-full-indefinite-ban-world-athletics-doping-scandal|access-date=26 November 2015|work=The Guardian|date=26 November 2015}} ARAF's efforts towards regaining full IAAF membership will be monitored by a five-person IAAF team.{{cite news|title=Athletics doping: IAAF names team to inspect Russian reforms|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/34842387|access-date=17 November 2015|work=BBC|date=17 November 2015}}

On June 21, 2016, the International Olympic Committee affirmed the decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations, banning all of the All-Russia Athletic Federation athletes from competing in 2016 Olympics.{{cite news|url=https://www.olympic.org/news/declaration-of-the-olympic-summit|title=Declaration of the Olympic Summit|date=June 21, 2016|publisher=IOC|access-date=June 24, 2016}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/18/sports/olympics/russia-barred-rio-summer-olympics-doping.html|title=Russia's Track and Field Team Barred From Rio Olympics|last=Ruiz|first=Rebecca R.|date=17 July 2016|work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=24 July 2016}}

In 2021, the Russian Athletic Federetion paid a fine of US$2,000,000 to World Athletics for infrenging the doping rules: this fine will be used to pay prize money to finalists of Oregon 2022 and Budapest 2023.{{cite web | url=https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/news/press-releases/tdk-world-athletics-world-record-programme-oregon | title=TDK and World Athletics to support world record programme in Oregon | PRESS-RELEASES | WCH 22 | World Athletics }}

{{As of|2022}}, due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, World Athletics has banned all Russian athletes, support personnel, and officials from all World Athletics Series events for the foreseeable future, including those with ANA status.

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• Men's 400 m – Pavel Ivashko
• Men's marathon – Aleksey Reunkov
• Men's 110 m hurdles – Sergey Shubenkov
• Men's 400 m hurdles – Denis Kudryavtsev, Timofey Chalyy, Ivan Shablyuyev
• Men's 3000m steeplechase – Ilgizar Safiullin
• Men's 20 km walk – Nikolay Markov
• Men's 50 km walk – Roman Evstifeev, Sergey Sharypov
• Men's 4x400 – Artem Denmukhametov, Pavel Ivashko, Ilya Krasnov, Vladimir Krasnov, Pavel Trenikhin
• Men's long jump – Vasiliy Kopeykin, Aleksandr Menkov, Sergey Polyanskiy
• Men's triple jump – Lyukman Adams, Dmitriy Chizhikov, Aleksey Fyodorov
• Men's high jump – Danil Lysenko, Ivan Ukhov, Daniil Tsyplakov
• Men's pole vault – Georgy Gorokhov
• Men's shot put – Maksim Sidorov, Aleksandr Lesnoy
• Men's discus throw – Viktor Butenko
• Men's hammer throw – Sergey Litvinov, Aleksiy Sokirskiy
• Men's javelin throw – Dmitriy Tarabin
• Men's decathlon – Ilya Shkurenyov
• Women's 400 m – Antonina Krivoshapka
• Women's 1500m – Elena Korobkina, Anna Shchagina
• Women's 5000 m – Gulshat Fazlitdinova, Elena Korobkina
• Women's 10000 m – Alla Kulyatina
• Women's 3000 m steeplechase – Ekaterina Sokolenko, Natalya Vlasova
• Women's marathon – Tatyana Arkhipova, Alina Prokopyeva, Sardana Trofimova
• Women's 4 × 100 m – Elena Chernyaeva, Anna Kukushkina, Marina Panteleeva, Yevgeniya Polyakova, Kristina Sivkova
• Women's 4x400 – Kseniya Aksyonova, Antonina Krivoshapka, Alena Mamina, Yekaterina Renzhina
• Women's 100 m hurdles – Yekaterina Galitskaya
• Women's 400 m hurdles – Vera Rudakova
• Women's high jump – Mariya Kuchina
• Women's pole vault – Yelena Isinbayeva, Olga Mullina, Anzhelika Sidorova
• Women's long jump – Anna Misochenko, Yuliya Pidluzhnaya
• Women's triple jump – Yekaterina Koneva
• Women's shot put – Irina Tarasova
• Women's discus throw – Yelena Panova, Yekaterina Strokova, Yuliya Maltseva
• Women's hammer throw – Oksana Kondratyeva
• Women's javelin throw – Vera Rebrik
• Women's 20 km walk – Marina Pandakova, Mariya Ponomaryova, Svetlana Vasilyeva

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