David Meca
David Meca Medina (born February 1, 1974 in Sabadell ) is a Spanish long-distance swimmer and extreme athlete.
Stations of his career (excerpt)
- August 9, 1999: FINA banned David Meca for nandrolone abuse. David Meca protested his innocence. In independent tests, no nandrolone had been detected and he suspected that nandrolone was naturally formed by too much stress in his body. Following a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice , the ban was reduced to one year.
- September 20, 1999: David Meca swam from Alcatraz to San Francisco . In protest against doping allegations, he swam the distance of 2.5 km in shackles and took 36 minutes.
- December 16, 1999: He swam across the Strait of Gibraltar and broke the current record. The distance covered between Cadiz and Punto Clares is 16 km long. It took him 2:27 hours to do this, which is significantly faster than the old record of 3:10 hours.
- February 21, 2001: In the third and longest race in the FINA Marathon World Cup from Paraná to Hernandarias , he covered a distance of 88 km and won for the third time in a time of 9: 09: 12.0 hours.
- September 1, 2001: Meca was the first swimmer to complete the 44.5 km stretch from La Gomera and Tenerife . It took him just under eight hours to do this.
- July 2003: At the 2003 World Swimming Championships , he won the bronze medal on 10 km with a time of 1: 51: 08.4 hours.
- July 23, 2005: At the 2005 World Swimming Championships , he won gold over 25 km in a time of 5: 00: 21.4 hours.
- 4th / 5th January 2006: David Meca was the first person to swim from the Spanish mainland from Jávea near Alicante to the Balearic Islands to Sant Antoni de Portmany in Ibiza . He needed 22.5 hours for the route to the rocky island of Ses Bledes, and a total of 25.5 hours for the total distance of 110 km to Sant Antoni de Portmany.
- January 5, 2008: David Meca swims the Strait of Gibraltar three times without a break in 12:25 hours.
Meca-Medina decision
In 2006, David Meca had the European Court of Justice (ECJ) examined whether the anti-doping regulations enacted by the IOC and implemented by FINA, as well as certain doping control practices, are compatible with the EU regulations on competition and the freedom to provide services. Meca lost the trial, but the judgment of the ECJ went down in legal history as the Meca-Medina decision .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ COLLECTION OF SPORTS-RELATED CASE-LAW olympic.org 2002 ( Memento of December 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meca, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meca Medina, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan long-distance swimmer and extreme athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st February 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sabadell , Spain |