Jobie Dajka

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Jobie Dajka Road cycling
To person
Date of birth December 11, 1981
date of death April 7, 2009
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train (short term)
End of career 2005
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2002 World Champion - Keirin
Last updated: August 19, 2017

Jobie Dajka (born December 11, 1981 in Bourke , New South Wales , † April 7, 2009 in Adelaide ) was an Australian track cyclist .

biography

Athletic career

In 1998 Jobie Dajka became vice world champion in the junior team sprint together with Ben Kersten and Joshua Rogash . The following year he was two-time junior world champion, with Ben Kersten and Mark Renshaw in the team sprint and sprint . He failed to qualify for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . Two years later he became world champion in Keirin at the Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup near Copenhagen , in the team sprint he won silver with Ryan Bayley and Sean Eadie . In the same year he also won gold in the team sprint at the Commonwealth Games and bronze in the sprint together with Bayley and Eadie .

In 2003 Dajka was two-time runner-up in the sprint and keirin world championships, and in 2005 he finished third in the sprint championship.

Doping affair and its consequences

In December 2003, a cleaning lady found vials of growth hormones in the room of 19-year-old cyclist Mark French in a building at the Australian Institute of Sport in Adelaide . "What has eventuated [...] is a tangle of blame, suspicion, suspensions, exonerations, finger-pointing, court appearances and then court appeals." ("This was followed by a jumble of accusations, suspicions, suspensions, exonerations, assignments of blame, Court dates and appeals. ")

French stated that racing drivers Sean Eadie , Shane Kelly , Graeme Brown , Brett Lancaster and Dajka injected these themselves in his room. Eadie had given him the first syringe with what he believed were acceptable vitamins. After a four-month investigation French was punished only one of the racers with a two-year competition ban, which prevented him at the Olympic Games in Athens to start. He was also banned from the Australian Olympic team for life for trafficking in banned substances. Besides him, only Dajka was punished for false testimony by being removed from the Olympic squad; he had stated that he had never been in Frech's room. In 2005, French was acquitted by the International Court of Sports (CAS) and his bans lifted. "Dajka became the scapegoat [...] and Australia achieved its best international track cycling results at the 2004 Athens Olympics." ("Dajka became the scapegoat [...] and Australia won its best international at the 2004 Athens Olympics." Results. ”) So Brown and Lancaster belonged to the Australian four-man track that took gold.

Dajka then fell into depression and had alcohol problems, which had already started earlier. In an interview in 2008 he stated that he had drunk alcohol before races. However, the functionaries never offered him help, but at most sent him home so that he could “sort himself out”. From 2004 onwards he was tried several times for traffic offenses, the theft of cigarettes and the assault on his coach Martin Barras during the UCI Track World Championships in Los Angeles in 2005 , after which he was banned from the Australian Association Cycling Australia for another three years . In the same year he threatened his parents that he would kill them. Most recently he drank up to six bottles of wine and three bottles of scotch a day.

In December 2006 Dajka got his racing license back on the condition that he seek medical treatment and do 80 hours of community service. However, he did not make a comeback. In the 2008 interview, he stated that he had finished cycling. On April 7, 2009, Jobie Dajka was found dead in his Adelaide apartment. A heart attack was suspected to be the cause of death; No empty bottles were found in the apartment. At the time of his death he was dry , according to his mother , that they had reconciled and that he had "returned to the family". Her son died of a "broken heart". At the memorial service for Dajka, at which officials from Cycling Australia were expressly not welcome, Dajka's father Stan expressly blamed them for the death of his son.

In November 2012 Stan Dajka († 2016) was sentenced to 16 months in prison for trafficking in cannabis . He had grown the plants in his own garden and mailed them within Australia. Dajka said he originally started selling drugs to pay for his son's high legal fees.

Honors

In 1999, Jobie Dajka was honored as the best young athlete by the Australian Institute of Sport . In 2003 he was named Young South Australian of the Year .

successes

1998
1999
  • World ChampionJunior World Champion - sprint, team sprint (with Ben Kersten and Mark Renshaw )
  • silver Junior World Championship - 1000 meter time trial
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bob Stewart: Rethinking Drug Use in Sport. Routledge, 2014, ISBN 978-1-135-11847-1 , p. 44 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Alexander Hofmann: "We should better touch our own nose first". In: FAZ.net . July 13, 2004, accessed August 19, 2017 .
  3. ^ French ban overturned on appeal. In: news.bbc.co.uk. July 12, 2005, accessed August 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Jacquelin Magnay: Cyclist tells: I slide into alcoholic hell. In: brisbanetimes.com.au. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Rp Online: Cycling: Ex-world champion Dajka found dead. (No longer available online.) In: rp-online.de. April 8, 2009, archived from the original on April 11, 2009 ; Retrieved August 19, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  6. ↑ a b Chris Wilson / Jesper Fjeldstad: Broken heart killed Dajka. In: dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved August 19, 2017 .
  7. ^ The Nation, 11/12. April 2009
  8. ↑ No Cookies - Herald Sun. In: heraldsun.com.au. August 20, 2017, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  9. ^ No Cookies - The Advertiser. In: adelaidenow.com.au. July 5, 2012, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  10. ^ Australian Institute of Sport: Junior Athlete of the Year-Past Winners. ausport.gov.au, archived from the original on March 26, 2012 ; accessed on November 9, 2012 .
  11. ↑ DOH Home Page. In: health.sa.gov.au. August 20, 2017, accessed August 19, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dajka, Jobie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourke , New South Wales , Australia
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2009
Place of death Adelaide , South Australia , Australia