Whereabouts on ADAMS 

Registered Testing Pool athletes are required to provide their whereabouts information on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s Administration and Management System (ADAMS).

For those of you unfamiliar with ADAMS we have put together some ADAMS hints and tips to help you through the process of updating your whereabouts information.

ADAMS is an online tool with a range of enhancements that makes it easier for athletes to enter, view and change their whereabouts information. This includes giving the athlete, or their nominated representative, the ability to interact with ADAMS on an Android or iPhone device.  

ADAMS App for smartphones

As part of ongoing efforts to support athletes and doping-free sport, a free ADAMS app for smartphones is available from the Google Play and iTunes stores.

Using their Android or iPhone, athletes can submit their quarterly whereabouts information, as well as enter, check and change their whereabouts details at any time with just a few clicks. Using mobile notifications, the app also helps the athletes to remember their obligations to submit whereabouts, including the relevant deadlines to do so.

The App can be downloaded at the Google Play Store for Android devices or on iTunes for iPhone devices.

Accessing ADAMS on internet browsers

Whereabouts due dates

NOTE: The cut off time for whereabouts filing on each due date is 5:00pm AEST/AEDT (Canberra time).

Whereabouts policy

Read the full ASADA Whereabouts Policy

Filing whereabouts

An athlete in the RTP must specify one hour every day, between 5 am and 11 pm, when they will be available for testing. The athlete must tell us where they will be for this hour and make sure that they are at the specified place. They must also specify their regular schedule, including: 

• address and contact details
• if they have a disability that may affect testing
• location details for where they will be staying for each day in the quarter
• location details for where they will be training, working or doing any other regular activity for each day in the quarter
• the usual times that these activities would take place
• location details for any events they are competing in.

Submit your whereabouts in ADAMS

Failure to be available for testing

If an athlete is not able to be at their specified location at their nominated time, they must let us know as soon as possible.

Failure to be available for testing at the specified location at the nominated time is the same as missing a test. A missed test may lead to an anti-doping rule violation and sanction.

Updating whereabouts information

It is hard for anyone to know where they will be three months in advance, so athletes can update their whereabouts information at any time before their nominated hour by logging in online, emailing changes to athlete@asada.gov.au; or by calling us on the numbers on our Contact Us page.

Whereabouts is your next holiday?

Following a series of Whereabouts failures after the 2016 Rio Olympics, ASADA and Swimming Australia worked together to ensure their athletes received the best possible education on the importance of whereabouts and how to operate ADAMS. The work also included the two organisations developing three sport-specific Whereabouts posters to help their athletes maintain compliance and avoid accidental violations.

The three posters focus on key times when athletes were prone to receiving ‘strikes’ for failing to update or maintain their ADAMS information:

1. Being away from a computer,
2. Being on holidays, or
3. Having no Internet access.

These posters were circulated to all athletes and were given to key training centres across the country to display in prominent positions.

Sports can download a PDF of these posters by clicking on the links above, or ASADA can tailor posters specific to other sports on request. Simply email education@asada.gov.au to discuss how we can help you.

False information in whereabouts filings

Knowingly providing us with false information in a Whereabouts Filing may lead to an anti-doping rule violation and sanction.

Registered Testing Pool

Any athlete in the RTP will be required to provide whereabouts information.

Athletes who are part of an RTP and required to provide whereabouts will be informed in writing and given an outline on how to provide whereabouts information.

We recommend RTP athletes make themselves aware of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code and International Standard of Testing and Investigations (ISTI). RTP athletes should also make themselves aware of the updated ASADA Athlete Whereabouts Policy and of their sport's anti-doping policy.

Find out more about the RTP

Professional team-sport athletes

Your club or national sporting organisation provides us with your team training schedule, so you are not required to provide whereabouts information unless you are individually added to the RTP.

Athletes with intellectual disabilities

If an athlete with intellectual disabilities is included in the RTP, we will make sure that one of the following people is also informed:

• the athlete’s spouse
• the athlete’s parent or guardian
• the athlete’s coach
• or a representative of a relevant sporting administration.

Sporting organisations

National sporting organisations are required to provide us with the personal and contact details of athletes from their sport who are part of the RTP. 

Delegating whereabouts

Athletes are ultimately responsible for making sure that their whereabouts information is accurate, but they can nominate a trusted person, an authorised representative to submit and manage it on their behalf. 

The athlete is also still responsible for making sure that they are at the specified location at the nominated time, whether or not they have logged their whereabouts.

Authorised Representative form  ASADA Authorised Representative Declaration Form.PDF

Retirement and reinstatement

Athletes must immediately notify their national sporting organisation in writing of their decision to retire. It is the responsibility of the national sporting organisation to notify us.

Athletes on our RTP who wish to retire from competition, should also complete the ASADA Retirement Notification form and submit it to us. 

• Retirement form  ASADA Retirement Notification Form.pdf
• Reinstatement form  ASADA Reinstatement Request Form.pdf

Selection for testing after submitting retirement notification

An athlete is required to complete the sample collection process if we have not received the Retirement Notification Form or notification from your national sporting organisation. Failure to comply with the request to provide a sample may result in an anti-doping rule violation.

Athletes also on International Federation's RTP

Any athlete on an International Federation (IF) RTP will also be subject to the IF’s retirement requirements. (Contact your IF for more information.)

Retired athletes returning to competition

Athletes must ensure they follow the reinstatement procedures as set out in their national sporting organisation and IF's anti-doping policy.

Waiting for reinstatement

An athlete's national sporting organisation reinstatement procedure specifies a timeframe from the reinstatement date until when the athlete is able to compete in a national sporting organisation sanctioned event. During this time, the athlete must be available for out-of-competition sample collection in accordance with their sport's anti-doping policy. Most sports require a minimum of six months between retirement date and application for reinstatement. 

Any athlete in an IF RTP will also be subject to that federation's reinstatement requirements.

Retiring while sanctioned 

If an athlete retires while on a sanction for an anti-doping rule violation, the clock stops on the sanction. If the athlete wishes to be reinstated they will need to:

• wait out either the remaining sanction period or the reinstatement period, whichever is longer; and
• be subject to out-of-competition testing.