Alois Schloder (born 11 August 1947 in

Landshut Landshut (; bar, Landshuad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also t ...

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) is a retired

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player. He participated at the

1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games (german: XII. Olympische Winterspiele, french: XIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1976 ( bar, Innschbruck 1976, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a ...

and won a bronze medal. He was disqualified from the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 ( ja, 札幌1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe ...

after failing a doping test. After his innocence was proven a few weeks later, he was allowed to take part in the 1972 Ice Hockey World Championships. He was inducted into the

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in 2005.

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IIHF Hockey Hall of Fame bio
* * * * 1947 births Living people Doping cases in ice hockey German ice hockey players German sportspeople in doping cases Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany Olympic ice hockey players of West Germany Olympic medalists in ice hockey Sportspeople from Landshut {{Germany-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub