Doping in South African sport is most common among rugby players under 21

This is according to recent surveys by the SA Institute for Drug-free Sport.

"The major shocker is that one pupil tested positive for seven anabolic steroids, another for three, one for two, one for a steroid and stimulant, and one for a steroid and cannabis," the institute's research manager, Amanda Claassen-Smithers, said yesterday.

The tests were of members of sporting federations and not scholars, she said at Fitcon 2016, a fitness convention organised by the Sport Science Institute of SA.

From April 2012 to March 2013 nine of 43 athletes who tested positive for doping were under 21, and eight of them played rugby.

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