By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
Penny Oleksiak, the most decorated Canadian Olympian in history, has accepted a two-year period of ineligibility for whereabouts failures, the International Testing Agency (ITA) announced Tuesday.
Oleksiak, 25, withdrew from the 2025 World Championships in early July due to an ongoing whereabouts case, and then a few weeks later, the ITA confirmed Oleksiak was serving a voluntary provisional suspension for missing three Whereabouts filings in a 12-month period.
On Tuesday, the ITA reported that Oleksiak agreed to the consequences of three Whereabouts failures, which is a two-year competition beginning on July 15, when she initially agreed to the voluntary provisional suspension. Her suspension will conclude on July 14, 2027, which will be three months too late to vie for a spot on Canada’s 2027 World Championship team.
The ITA also said all of her results from June 16, 2025, onward will be disqualified—presumably when her third Whereabouts failure occurred—though she has not competed since the 2025 Canadian Swimming Trials in Victoria, which wrapped up on June 12.
At that competition, Oleksiak earned a berth on Canada’s 2025 World Championship roster after winning the women’s 50 free (24.70) and 100 free (54.03) before withdrawing three weeks later.
If she had competed at Worlds, in addition to any individual swims, all results from relays she competed on would’ve seen their results stripped, given the ITA’s announcement on Tuesday.
When she withdrew from Worlds, Oleksiak said the matter “does not involve any banned substance” and added, “I am and always have been a clean athlete and will be making no further comment at this time.”
At the time, Swimming Canada CEO Suzanne Paulins said Oleksiak failed to keep her information up to date with World Aquatics and called the situation an “administrative mistake”.
A Whereabouts case is an anti-doping rule violation that can affect athlete eligibility, even if they have never taken a banned substance. The World Anti-Doping Code defines a Whereabouts failure as any combination of three missed tests or filing failures in a 12-month period.
Athletes who are members of the “Registered Testing Pool”, which is the highest tier of athlete testing, are required to report an accurate and up-to-date filing of their whereabouts at all times. This is so they can be drug tested at any time and any place with no advance notice.
According to World Aquatics, if an athlete in the testing pool submits “late, inaccurate or incomplete whereabouts that lead to [them] being unavailable for testing, [they] may receive a Filing Failure.”
Registered Testing Pool athletes are also subject to Missed Tests, which is when they are not available for a drug test during a 60-minute time slot. Any combination of three Filing Failures or Missed Tests within 12 months could result in a two-year ban.
Previously based at the High Performance Centre – Ontario in Toronto, Oleksiak moved her training home to Los Angeles in the fall of 2023, and qualified for her third Olympic team last summer, though serving as a relay-only swimmer.
Back at the 2016 Olympics, Oleksiak was the upset gold medalist in the women’s 100 freestyle, tying American Simone Manuel for the title at the age of 16, setting the World Junior Record of 52.70 in the process (which still stands today).
Oleksiak also won silver in the 100 fly, and added a pair of bronze medals on the Canadian women’s relays.
At the Tokyo Olympics five years later, she won individual bronze in the women’s 200 free and added a silver in the women’s 4×100 free and a bronze in the women’s 4×100 medley, giving her seven career Olympic medals, the most by a Canadian ever.
Oleksiak also owns nine World Aquatics Championships (LC) medals and seven from the Short Course World Championships, including a pair of relay golds from the 2016 edition on home soil in Windsor. Most recently, she won three relay medals at the 2024 SC Worlds in Budapest.
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