Australian sprinter

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.

Contents

• 1 Athletics
  • 1.1 Controversy
• 2 Results
  • 2.1 World Athletics Championships
  • 2.2 Olympics
• 3 External links
• 4 References

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.

Capobianco won the 1990 Stawell Gift with a time of 12.29 and a handicap of 2.25 metres (2.46:yd).

Controversy

An IAAF arbitration panel found Capobianco guilty of taking anabolic *s, 10 months after he was cleared of any doping offence in a preliminary hearing by an IAAF independent arbitrator. 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 compe*ion for four years by the IAAF for taking the banned * stanozolol after a meeting in Hengelo.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

Olympics

External links

• 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