Mark Tout (born 24 June 1961) is an

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der who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Born in

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, he attended

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from 1972 to 1977. Competing in four

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, he earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Lillehammer in

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. His best finish in the

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was second in the four-man event in 1994–5. Tout later received a lifetime ban for testing positive for

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in 1997, but was reinstated in 2001 after his lifetime ban was turned into a four-year ban.

References

1984 bobsleigh four-man results

BBC.co.uk 2002 article on Tout's doping suspension.

British Olympic Association profile

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