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Brigitte McMahon-Huber (born 25 March 1967 in Baar) is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in
CNN report on doping
Brigitte McMahon-Huber (born 25 March 1967 in Baar) is an athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon
A triathlon is an endurance multisport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances. Triathletes compete for fastest overall completion time, racing each segment sequentially with the time transitioning between the ...
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McMahon competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...
. She won the gold medal with a total time of 2:00:40.52, which until 2008 was the fastest time for a female in an Olympic triathlon. Her split times were 19:44.58 for the swim, 1:05:42.30 for the cycling and 0:35:13.64 for the run.
McMahon-Huber competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing tenth with a total time of 2:07:07.73.
McMahon tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) during an out of competition control in June 2005. She maintains that she did not take any doping until well after the 2004 Athens Olympics where she came 10th and that she did it for therapeutic reasons only. After the positive test she was immediately removed from the Swiss national team and was facing a two-year ban from triathlon. As a consequence she retired from the sport.
See also
*List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ...
References
CNN report on doping
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* 1967 births Living people People from Baar, Switzerland Sportspeople from the canton of Zug Swiss people of Irish descent Swiss female triathletes Olympic triathletes of Switzerland Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland Triathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics Triathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swiss sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in triathlon Olympic medalists in triathlon Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{Switzerland-Olympic-medalist-stub