Anti-Doping

ANTI-DOPING OBLIGATIONS

Doping is the use of substances or methods that are banned in sport. Doping is cheating because it gives one athlete an advantage over others. Doping is also extremely dangerous to your health and can destroy your reputation.

Anti-doping is a set of rules designed to protect athletes’ rights to participate in sport free of performance enhancing drugs. It’s anti-doping that keeps sport fair and keeps the playing field level. When athletes choose not to dope, we say they compete clean.

Sports Integrity Australia has rolled out a single Australian National Anti-doping Policy   for all sports to adopt from 1 January 2021.  This is the policy that applies to the ABSC and all State associations.

The purpose of a single Australian National Anti-Doping Policy is to bring greater consistency for anti-doping rules across the sporting community.  The major change for our sport is the increased emphasis on anti-doping education for all participants – players and officials.

Anti-Doping and Snooker and Billiards

The ABSC takes a position of zero tolerance toward doping in sport and works closely with Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) in Australia and the World Snooker Federation and International Billiards & Snooker Federation internationally to ensure a drug-free environment in our sport.

Anti-doping rules apply to all participants of our sport from elite to grassroots. All members must be aware of, and have a basic understanding of, their obligations regarding anti-doping.

Participants in all National and State association events will need to acknowledge that they comply with this statement:

“I have read and understood and agree to abide by the Australian National Anti-doping Policy , being the policy adopted by The Australian Billiards & Snooker Council and applicable to all members, participants and non-participants.”

The Sport Integrity Australia website has a range of information and resources to assist, including: 

To report a breach of anti-doping rules, submit directly to Sport Integrity Australia via: