Ángel Mullera (

Lloret de Mar Lloret de Mar (; ) is a Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coastal town in Catalonia, Spain. It is south of Girona and northeast of Barcelona. With a population of 38,402 in 2021, it is the second largest town in the Selva (comarca), Selva comarc ...

1984-) is a Spanish steeplechaser. Prior to the

2012 Olympic Games The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, Mullera was thrown out of the Spanish Olympic team for doping offences but later overturned this at the

Court of Arbitration for Sport The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; , TAS) is an international body established in 1984 to settle disputes related to sport through arbitration. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland, and its courts are located in New York City, Sy ...

. In September 2013, it was announced that Mullera had failed a doping test in the 2013 Spanish athletics national championships. The substance allegedly used by the athlete was

corticosteroid Corticosteroids are a class of steroid hormones that are produced in the adrenal cortex of vertebrates, as well as the synthetic analogues of these hormones. Two main classes of corticosteroids, glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids, are invo ...

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Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Spain Spanish male steeplechase runners 1984 births European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes from Catalonia Sportsmen from Catalonia Sportspeople from the Province of Girona People from Lloret de Mar Spanish sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub