List of doping cases in athletics

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This is a list of sportspeople in athletics who have done doping in sport.

Coaches have also helped sportspeople to do doping (in athletics). Coaches who got punishment, were Trevor Graham (in 2008 he got a lifetime ban),[1][2] and Alberto Salazar (banned in 2019, for 4 years)[3] and others.

Name Country Event Date of
violation (or breaking rule)
Banned substance(s)/
Anti-doping rule violation
Sanction (or punishment) Reference(s)
Linda Haglund  Sweden Sprinting 1981 Anabolic steroids 18 months [4]
Marion Jones  United States Sprinting/Long jump 2000–2006 THG (investigation > admittance) 2 years [5][6][7]
Carl Lewis  United States Sprinting, long jump Pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, phenylpropanolamine (inadvertent use (or not used on purpose)) [8]
Christine Ohuruogu  Great Britain Sprinting 2006 3 whereabouts failures (or times when she could not be found for testing) 1 year [9][10]
Ali Saïdi-Sief  Algeria Long distance 2001 Nandrolone 2 years [6][11]

References change

  1. bbc.co.uk, "Coach Graham is handed life ban" Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  2. "Track coach Trevor Graham gets banned for life". Seattle Times. 16 July 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  3. "AAA Panel Imposes 4-Year Sanctions on Alberto Salazar and Dr. Jeffrey Brown for Multiple Anti-Doping Rule Violations". 30 September 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  4. "Gå utanför ramen – dyrka nyfikenheten" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 1 February 2010. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  5. "IAAF News 2008, Issue 90–98". iaaf.org. IAAF. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Butler, Mark (2015). "Doping violations at IAAF World Championships". IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 Statistics Handbook. Monaco: IAAF. pp. 75–78. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015.
  7. Shipley, Amy (5 October 2007). "Marion Jones Admits to Steroid Use". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  8. MacKay, Duncan (24 April 2003). "Lewis: 'Who cares I failed drug test?'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  9. "Ohuruogu is hit by one-year ban". BBC News. 15 September 2006. Retrieved 8 May 2010.
  10. "Athletes Sanctioned for a Doping Offence Committed During 2006" (PDF). iaaf.org. IAAF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  11. Doping ban on US sprinter Gatlin lifted, Hurriyet Daily News, 7 May 2002