The aim of testing is to detect and deter doping among athletes to protect clean athletes.

Any athlete under the testing jurisdiction of the World Taekwondo may be tested at any time, with no advance notice, in- or out-of-competition, and be required to provide a urine or blood sample.

No-advance notice out-of-competition testing is one of the most powerful means of deterrence and detection of doping. To support this type of testing, the WT has created testing pools as part of its testing program.
Certain athletes in the WT testing pools, such as those in the Registered Testing Pool (RTP) and in the Testing Pool (TP), are required to provide information on their whereabouts in ADAMS, WADA’s online anti-doping administration and management system.
The WT updates the composition of the testing pools (RTP and TP regularly/at least yearly. Athletes in the RTP are chosen based on set criteria. WTF has selected athletes to be listed for 2017 WTF RTP & TP based on the following principles and considerations:

• Risk Assessment in Taekwondo
• Top 40 Male athletes and 30 Female athletes of the 2017 January WT Olympic Ranking
• Medalists from Rio Olympic Games
• Athletes without NADO in their countries
• Athletes not selected in their countries’ RTP
• Recently injured athletes
• Athletes that registered high performance in one month
• Athletes with sudden withdrawal record from WT Promoted Championships
• Athletes not tested out of competition in the past one year
• Athletes with a suspicious behavior
• Athletes with previous Unsuccessful Attempt Failure record
• Inclusion of Para Taekwondo athletes
• Inclusion of Junior division athletes potentially competitive for next Olympic Games
• Inclusion of athletes suspended for Anti-Doping Rule Violation
• Inclusion of athletes with an Atypical Finding record
• Consideration of weight division balance
• Consideration of continental allocation balance
• Consideration of gender balance

Athletes who need to provide whereabouts in ADAMS for the WT are notified by the WT (or by their national federation) of their inclusion in the WT’s testing pool as well as what information exactly is required of them, how to use ADAMS, deadlines to submit this information and any consequences if the information required is not submitted.


The deadlines to file whereabouts for the upcoming 2019 quarters are now the 15th of the month prior to the start of the quarter, as detailed in the table below.

Therefore, the deadline to provide your whereabouts for Quarter 1 2019 (January- February – March 2019) is 15 December 2018, at the latest.

Yearly Quarters	Submission Deadlines
Q1: 1 January – 31 March Q2: 1 April – 30 June Q3: 1 July – 30 September Q4: 1 October – 31 December	15th December 15th March 15th June 15th September

If you have already provided your whereabouts information for the upcoming quarter, we thank you very much for doing so and plase take note of the submission deadlines for the next quarters.

If your upcoming calendar has not yet been finalized, please provide the information to the best of your knowledge before 15 December 2018. You will then have to update your whereabouts as soon as you become aware of a schedule change.

If you are in fact retiring from international competition and are of the view that you should no longer be included in a Testing Pool, please inform us without delay.

Should athletes have any query on ADAMS, such as how to submit whereabouts, please contact Mr. Marco IENNA antidoping@worldtaekwondo.org

All WT-licensed athletes who decide to retire from competition must inform the WT through their National Federations sending the WT Retirement Notification Form to sport@worldtaekwondo.org and antidoping@worldtaekwondo.org in copy to kabir.gms@worldtaekwondo.org For RTP athletes, as soon as the retirement is officially confirmed to the WT, the athlete will be withdrawn from the WT’s RTP with immediate effect. If an athlete wishes to resume competing, they will not be able to do so until they have given the WT written notice of their intent to resume competing and made themselves available for testing for a period of six months. Please consult Article 5.7 of the WT Anti-Doping Rules.