Dean Capobianco (born 11 May 1970) is a former Australian athlete, known best as a
sprinter. He won the 1990
Stawell Gift
The Stawell Gift is Australia's oldest and richest short-distance running race. It is the main event in an annual carnival held on Easter weekend by the Stawell Athletic Club, with the main race finals on the holiday Monday, at Central Park, St ...
and represented Australia in the
200 metres
The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...
at the
1992 Barcelona and
1996 Atlanta
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
Olympic Games.
Athletics
In 1993, he reached his peak in the World Athletics Championships in
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, 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 .
Controversy
An IAAF arbitration panel found Capobianco guilty of taking anabolic steroids, 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 competition for four years by the International Association of Athletics Federations, IAAF for taking the banned steroid 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
Athlete: Dean Capobianco - Australian Olympic Committee
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External links
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References
1970 births
Living people
Australian male sprinters
Olympic athletes of Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Stawell Gift winners
Australian sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in athletics
Western Australian Sports Star of the Year winners
Athletes from Perth, Western Australia
Doping cases in Australian track and field
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