Dean Capobianco

Dean Capobianco (born 11 May 1970) is a former Australian athlete, known best as a sprinter. He won the 1990 Stawell Gift and represented Australia in the 200 metres at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

Athletics

In 1993, he reached his peak in the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, when he set a new personal best of 20.18 seconds over 200 metres.[1]

Controversy

An IAAF arbitration panel found Capobianco guilty of taking anabolic steroids. IAAF general secretary Istvan Gyulai said that the reinstatement of Capobianco in July 1996 following a report for Athletics Australia by Robert Ellicott, QC, was a mistake. That inquiry cleared Capobianco on a technicality to run in the Olympic Games. In 1996, after months of legal challenge, Capobianco was banned from competition for four years by the IAAF for taking the banned steroid stanozolol after a meeting in Hengelo.[2] Capobianco raced in Dijon the day prior to Hengelo and returned a negative (clear) drugs test. Capobianco's costs for arbitration were paid by the IAAF and his ban was later reduced to 2 years.

Results

World Athletics Championships
Venue Event Place Time
1999 World Championships in Athletics, Seville, Spain200 m - MenHeats21.48
1995 World Championships in Athletics, Gothenburg, Sweden200 m - Men5th20.88
1993 World Championships in Athletics, Stuttgart, Germany200 m - Men4th20.18

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Olympics
Venue Event Place Time
1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona200 m - Men1st (Round 1, heat 8)20.86
1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona200 m - Men4th (Round 2, heat 3)20.61
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta200 m - Men4th (Qualifying, heat 8)20.76
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta200 m - Men7th (Quarter final, heat 2)21.03
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta4 × 100 m Relay - Men1st (Qualifying, heat 5)38.93
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta4 × 100 m Relay - Mendisqualified (Semi-final, heat 2)
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta4 × 400 m Relay - Men4th (Qualifying, heat 1)3:03.73
1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta4 × 400 m Relay - Men7th (Semi-final, heat 1)3:04.55

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  • Profile
  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dean Capobianco". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.

References
  1. "Sports Stars of the Year from 1956". WA Sports Federation. Archived from the original on 13 July 2005. Retrieved 27 December 2007.
  2. "Capobianco banned for taking steroids". coolrunningaustralia. 17 March 1997. Retrieved 26 December 2007.
  3. IAAF.org - Results
  4. Athlete: Dean Capobianco - Australian Olympic Committee


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