Austrian ex-hurdler banned for life after second doping case
Submitted by Keval Sharma on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 14:55.
Vienna - Former hurdler Elmar Lichtenegger was banned for life Wednesday by the Austrian athletics federation for a second positive doping test.
The ban will apply to all international and national sport, the federation ruled.
Lichtenegger, 34, retired from athletics in December last year a few days after testing positive for the banned substance Norandrosteron, a metabolite of the anabolic steroid Nandrolone.
He had been banned for 15 months in 2003/2004 for a similar doping offence. In both cases, Lichtenegger blamed tainted food supplements for the positive result.
Lichtenegger was a silver medallist in the 110-metre hurdles at the 2002 European indoor championships. (dpa)
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