Abstract

Introduction: Doping or the commission of one or several violations of anti-doping regulations, where the consumption of illegal substances has gained great importance in recent years as a result of the demands generated around obtaining competitive advantages, with adverse effects often being ignored. of these substances. Objective: To determine the prevalence of sanctions for doping in Chilean sports according to the consumption of prohibited substances, sport and gender during the period 2013 to 2022. Material and methods: Transversal descriptive study, whose sample I consider 101 athletes belonging to 19 sports. For the analysis, the sport, gender and consumption of illicit substances obtained from the registry of the National Commission Against Doping-Chile were considered. Results: The three sports with the highest prevalence of sanctions for doping were cycling (26.73%), athletics (13.86%) and weightlifting (10.89%), where anabolic agents were the group with the highest prevalence (32.67%), followed by diuretics (22.77%) and stimulants (13.86%), with the prevalence of doping being higher in men (84.16%) Conclusion: Individual sports with a high metabolic load report a higher prevalence of sanctions for results adverse to the doping code, with high attendance sporting events being a trigger for the prevalence of doping.