 Rebecca Heyliger IslandStats.com
Efimova swims for the Trojan Swim Club in Southern California in the United States, the same swim club that Bermuda’s Julian Fletcher and Rebecca Heyliger train with.
Efimova, the 100 meters Breaststroke champion at last year's home World Championships in Kazan, is Russia's leading swimmer, having also won a 50m World Title in 2009 and the 50 and 200m double in 2013 in addition to a London 2012 Olympic Bronze Medal over 200m.
Fletcher and Heyliger also both competed at the World Championships in Kazan last year.
The 23-year-old is already a controversial figure, having served a 16-year ban from the sport for a previous failure for banned prescription steroid DHEA in 2013.
She claimed to have inadvertently taken the steroid from a supplement she bought at a store in California, where she was training, and that a salesperson assured her the supplement was "doping-free", though DHEA was clearly listed as an ingredient on the label.
Efimova was stripped of her five titles at the 2013 European Short Course Championships in Herning, but many criticized how her 2013 World Championships performances survived and that she was able to return in time for Kazan 2015.
The Russian Swimming Federation is "aware" of her failure for meldonium, a source told the TASS news agency today.
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