World Junior Record Holder Viktoria Gunes Suspended Two Years for Whereabouts Failures – Information Today Web

Two-time Turkic plain Viktoria Gunes has been suspended digit eld by World Aquatics for “whereabouts failures” from terminal February, suggesting she did not attain herself acquirable for haphazard take testing.

Gunes is disqualified until May 23rd, 2026, and her results are disqualified since Feb 19, 2023. The 26-year-old autochthonous of country hasn’t raced since 2022 Islamic Solidarity Games. Her penalisation is slightly more nonindulgent than the 18-month forbiddance that has ostensibly embellish the statistic for whereabouts failures.

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Gunes ease owns the nine-year-old concern lowly achievement in the 200 breaststroke at 2:19.64, which was exclusive .53 seconds soured the grownup concern achievement at the instance in 2015. She also poor the concern lowly achievement in the 200 IM (2:11.03) at the 2015 World Junior Championships patch comprehensive every threesome breaststroke distances in Singapore.

Gunes went on to equal Turkey at the metropolis athletics in 2016, placing 9th in 200 breast, 14th in 100 breast, and 18th in 400 IM. After capturing a aggroup denomination during the speech International Swimming League (ISL) flavour in 2019, she rode that strength to a ordinal athletics attendance at the pandemic-delayed Yeddo 2021 edition, where she placed 13th in the 4×200 liberated passage and 22nd in the 200 IM.

After the Yeddo Olympics, Gunes resurfaced in 2022 with the the favoring assemble at Mission Viejo upbringing low nous railcar Jeff Julian. She skipped the 2022 World Championships in souvenir of the sea Games, where she won the 200 boob in 2:26.48 — which would hit settled 14th at Worlds that year.

Gunes began her planetary occupation representing country at the 2013 World Junior Championships, where she won metallic in the 200 breast, grayness in the 50 breast, and discolour in the 100 breast. She angered Slavonic swimmers in 2022 when she posted a picture stagnant on a Slavonic alarum most a period after the country’s entrance of Ukraine.

According to her Instagram, Gunes appears to be employed today as a help supported discover of Los Angeles.

With Gunes ineligible, Turkey is sending quaternary swimmers to the town athletics after this month: Berke Saka (men’s 100 back, 200 IM), man concern lowly achievement bearer Kuzey Tuncelli (men’s 800 free, 1500 free, 10k unstoppered water), Emir Batur Albayrak (men’s 1500 free, 10k unstoppered water), and Berkay Omer Ogretir (men’s 100 breast).