Athletics: Doping: Olympic walking champion Schwazer tested positive again

In addition, NADA suspended the 41-year-old after the positive test on April 26th in Kelsterbach, Hesse, and filed a complaint with the responsible public prosecutor’s office on the basis of the anti-doping law.

Schwazer, who won Olympic gold over 50 kilometers in Beijing in 2008, completed the fastest time in the DM marathon race in 3:01:55 hours.

Schwazer has already been banned twice for doping

The South Tyrolean had already tested positive for Epo in 2012 before the Olympic Games in London and later admitted his guilt. He was subsequently banned for four years and given an eight-month suspended prison sentence. His girlfriend at the time, former figure skating world champion Carolina Kostner, is said to have helped him avoid tests and was banned for 16 months for it.

On January 1, 2016, he tested positive again on behalf of the world athletics association World Athletics. Anabolic steroids were found in his urine sample. Schwazer, who had always denied this doping accusation, was banned for eight years.

He wanted to ask the Independent Integrity Agency (AIU) to have his ban lifted. The AIU rejected this. The Italian appealed to the Cas International Court of Arbitration for Sport – and failed.