Ouyang Kunpeng (; born November 19, 1982, in

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

) is a Chinese

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and China's top male backstroker, holding the Chinese record in the long course and short course 50m, 100m, and 200m backstroke. In May 2008, he was banned for life from the sport for a positive anti-doping test. In July 2008,

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announced his lifetime ban by the

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with a posting on their anti-doping website. As of December 2010, this posting has been updated with a change of the ban from lifetime to 2-years. In December 2010, an AP report surfaced which indicated that his lifetime ban had been converted to a more-conventional 2-year ban; however, Ouyang was experience difficulties in return to competition in China, where the lifetime ban originated and was still in place.

Personal bests

In long course * 50m backstroke: 25.18 (December 4, 2005) * 100m backstroke: 54.41 (December 5, 2005)Profile - swimranking.net
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References

External links

Profile - sports.sina.com.cn
1982 births Living people Chinese male backstroke swimmers Swimmers from Jiangxi Olympic swimmers for China Chinese sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in swimming Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games bronze medalists for China Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade {{PRChina-swimming-bio-stub