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Dean Capobianco
Australian sprinter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dean Capobianco (born 11 May 1970) is an Australian former athlete, known best as a sprinter. He won the 1990 Stawell Gift and represented Australia in the 200 metres at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
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In 1993, he reached his peak in the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, when he set a new personal best of 20.18 seconds over 200 metres.[1]
Capobianco won the 1990 Stawell Gift with a time of 12.29 and a handicap of 2.25 metres (2.46 yd).[2]
He finished second behind John Regis in the 200 metres event at the British 1990 AAA Championships.[3][4]
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 IAAF for taking the banned steroid stanozolol after a meeting in Hengelo.[5] 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.
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Results
World Athletics Championships
Olympics
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Post-athletics career
In 2021 Capobianco was appointed CEO of the location data provider Geoscape Australia.[8][9]
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