Nandrolone - Publicized Cases

Publicized Cases

  • In November 1994, South Africa's Jamie Bloem was the first rugby league footballer to test positive for nandrolone. He was banned for two years.
  • Petr Korda tested positive for nandrolone after his 1998 Wimbledon quarter final match against Tim Henman. Korda was banned from tennis for one year from July 1999.
  • Roger Clemens, who was a member of the 2000 World Series winning New York Yankees, was reported to have been injected with nandrolone (Deca-Durabolin) by major league strength coach Brian McNamee during the 2000 baseball season.
  • Barry Bonds is reported to have begun a regime of banned steroids and human growth hormones following his disappointment with insufficient acclaim for his past natural baseball achievements. In the 1999 spring training camp his trainer readily admitted to a Bonds' teammate that Bonds was doping the steroid Deca-Durabolin.
  • UFC Hall of Famer Royce Gracie tested positive for nandrolone after defeating his longtime rival Kazushi Sakuraba at K-1 Dynamite!! USA in 2007, he was fined $2,500 and suspended for the remainder of his license.
  • Shoaib Akhtar, a Pakistani cricketer, was given a two year ban in 2006 for testing positive for nandrolone. Shoaib was sent back to Pakistan and missed out competing for the Champions Trophy. The verdict, however, was overturned by a three-man tribunal a month later.
  • Sean Sherk, former UFC Lightweight Champion, tested positive for nandrolone following his title defence to Hermes Franca at UFC 73. Sherk passed a lie detector test claiming that he did not knowingly take steroids but the UFC still stripped Sherk of the lightweight title.
  • Linford Christie, a British sprinter and 1992 Olympic gold medalist, tested positive for nandrolone in 1999.
  • Former Maryland Terrapin and NBA player Juan Dixon tested positive for use of this drug in 2009, which earned him a suspension by the International Basketball Federation.
  • In September 2010, Baltimore Orioles minor league shortstop Alfredo Zambrano received a 50-game suspension for the 2011 season as a result of testing positive for metabolites of nandrolone.
  • Indian athlete Rani Yadav and Sri Lankan boxer Manju Wanniarachchi tested positive for nandrolone at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
  • British tennis player Greg Rusedski tested positive for nandrolone in January 2004, but was cleared of the charges in a hearing on 10 March 2004.
  • The footballers Jaap Stam, Edgar Davids, Frank de Boer, Christophe Dugarry, Fernando Couto, Josep Guardiola, Mohamed Kallon, and Al-Saadi Gaddafi have all tested positive for nandrolone at some point in their careers.
  • German wrestler Alexander Leipold (76 kg) tested positive for markers used to prove the use of nandrolone three weeks after defeating American Brandon Slay in the 2000 Olympic finals. Leipold was stripped of his title, and the gold was awarded to Slay.

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