Anti-Doping / Clean Climbing

The UIAA promotes Clean Climbing by adopting and implementing the World Anti-Doping (WADA) Programme in its entirety. In parallel, the UIAA is responsible for ensuring that all of its member associations and athletes respect and comply with all relevant International Standards and all the principles inherent to the World-Anti Doping Code, including the registered testing pool and the doping violation procedure.

COMPETITION SPORT

The UIAA abides by the World Anti-Doping (WADA) standard for testing and testing procedures. Athletes participating in UIAA approved competitions, and other competitions run by UIAA member associations, are responsible for complying with the World Anti-Doping Code (“the Code”) and all relevant International Standards. All athletes have a right to enjoy competitions that are properly organised under rules that aim to ensure fairness and prevent doping.

Member Associations are responsible for complying with the Code and the UIAA Anti-Doping Policy and Procedure. Member Associations will make agreements in writing with athletes that confirms the athletes’ support for the Anti-Doping Policy and Procedure and the other UIAA rules and regulations.

All athletes affiliated with a National Federation shall be subject to in-competition testing by the UIAA, the athlete’s national federation, and any other Anti-Doping Organisation responsible for testing at a competition or event in which they participate. All athletes affiliated with a national federation shall also be subject to out-of-competition testing at any time or place, with or without advance notice, by the UIAA, WADA, the athlete’s national federation, the national anti-doping organisation of any country where the athlete is present.

Ice Climbers’ Anti-Doping Certificate

Since the beginning of 2016/2017 season, the UIAA launched its anti-doping online education programme for ice climbers and skyrunners. As of 2022/23, this programme will be the norm as part of WADA compliance. The UIAA was one of the first federations to successfully implement the programme across both ice climbing and skyrunning competitions. As well as supporting UIAA-sanctioned events, the UIAA Anti-Doping Commission performs a similar function for the International Skyrunning Federation.

All athletes competing in the upcoming UIAA Ice Climbing season must pass the test and obtain a certificate.

Although this education is only mandatory for UIAA licensed athletes, the UIAA hopes it can be useful to anyone interested in finding more information about fighting anti-doping.

Before you start your journey through our course, please take a careful look at the step-by-step guideline here.

To  successfully pass the course and obtain a certificate, applicants need 11 right answers out of 20 questions in total. If you do not succeed the first time, you will have other chance(s) to complete the course.

The link to the anti-doping online education is here http://uiaa.smas.org

EDUCATION

UIAA affirms the belief of WADA & UNESCO that education is a central theme of any programme designed to remove doping from sports. A successful programme of anti-doping worldwide can only function with adequate education of athletes and the whole sporting community. The UIAA firmly believes that athletes and their support system should be well aware of all rights, obligations, anti-doping precautions, methods, doping control systems and prohibitive substances. It also reiterates that athletes should be aware of consequences of doping not just in terms of doping code violations and disciplinary measures thereof, but also about the health hazards caused due to doping substances.

The UIAA with help of WADA and other anti-doping agencies will raise awareness about anti-doping in the mountaineering community. UIAA and its member associations are committed to provide the ideal environment for ‘fair play’ and educate every member of the mountaineering community about the harm from doping to the sport and the individual(s) concerned.

The WADA website provides a number of resources designed to help athletes understand the dangers and consequences of doping, as well as their responsibilities under the World Anti-Doping Code (Code).

UIAA ANTI-DOPING COMMISSION

The UIAA Anti-Doping Commission assists member associations to implement the Code and the Anti-Doping Policy and Procedure. It adopts and implements the World Anti-Doping (WADA) Programme in its entirety and is responsible for ensuring that all its member associations and athletes respect and comply with the Code, all relevant International Standards and all the principles inherent to the Code. “On 18 October 2014, the UIAA General Assembly adopted the latest amendments to the UIAA Anti-Doping policy. The policy was harmonized with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code.”

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain UIAA doping control program including in and out of competition testing, result based testing, random testing and targeted testing.
• Establish and maintain the Registered Testing Pool (RTP), identifying those who need provide their whereabouts.
• Development and maintenance of UIAA Anti-Doping Policy and Procedure and ensure compliance with the WADA code.
• Develop UIAA anti-doping education and information programme for all stakeholders (Coordinate education with Member Association and NADOs- National Association of Development Organizations). Focus education for Member Countries with recognition of NADO).
• Member Association education and assist in implementation of UIAA
• Anti-Doping Policy and Procedure
• Producing an annual report on UIAA Anti-Doping activities
• WADA and NADO communication

NEXT UIAA ANTI-DOPING COMMISSION MEETING: TBC