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Mark Schmidt (* 1978 ) is a German sports doctor . He gained worldwide fame through his involvement in major doping scandals since 2008. In January 2021 he was sentenced to several years imprisonment by the Regional Court Munich II for blood doping in winter athletes and cyclists.

Career

Schmidt attended the children's and youth sports school in Erfurt and studied medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1996/97 . After being an active alpine skier in his youth , he later received his doctorate in the field of performance diagnostics . After graduating in 2006, he received the post of team doctor with the Gerolsteiner cycling team . After the doping scandal there in 2008 and the associated dissolution of the team, Schmidt got a position as a doctor for the German cycling team Team Milram . The cyclist Bernhard Kohl had previously accused him of doping, which he denied. Because of the allegations, Schmidt was released from Team Milram and later fired. Four years later, the former Gerolsteiner professional Stefan Schumacher testified against Schmidt. In April 2013, the Doping Public Prosecutor in Freiburg opened preliminary investigations against Schmidt and his colleague Ernst Jakob, but they were unsuccessful. As witnesses in the Schumacher trial, Schmidt and Jakob described various measures to improve performance.

In 2014 Schmidt completed further training as a resident doctor with the “additional qualification in sports medicine ” as part of a scholarship from the “Foundation for the Promotion of Outpatient Medical Care in Thuringia ”. He then ran a practice together with his mother Heidrun Schmidt in the Rieth district of Erfurt , which the mother had opened as a general practitioner in 1991. Until the end of 2018, the Landessportbund Thuringia ran the practice as a "licensed sports medical examination center" . On February 28, 2019, the practice was officially revoked.

Convicted for taking part in blood doping

On February 27, 2019, as part of "Operation Aderlass", a raid was carried out by customs and associated with this, the arrest of Schmidt and one of his employees in his practice. The business premises were searched and extensive evidence such as blood bags with cover names was seized. Schmidt had received some of the seized equipment, such as a centrifuge , from Stefan Matschiner , who was also involved in a doping scandal in Austria. Schmidt has been in the Stadelheim correctional facility in Munich since his arrest .

On site in Seefeld as part of the searches at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019, in addition to the five cross-country skiers Dominik Baldauf , Max Hauke (both Austria), Andreas Veerpalu , Karel Tammjärv (both Estonia) and Alexei Poltoranin (Kazakhstan), Thuringian Diana S. and Schmidt's father Ansgard arrested. Extradition to Germany was ordered for both. Schmidt's father was chairman of the court of arbitration in the Landessportbund Thuringia and until mid-2017 he worked for the Erfurt law firm Spilker & Collegen, where Heinz-Jochen Spilker also worked, who was convicted of anabolic steroids in sprinters in the 1980s after working as a national trainer.

By March 24, 2019, the public prosecutor's office for doping crime in Munich had identified 21 athletes as Schmidt's customers. In May 2019, ex-professional and Swiss national coach Danilo Hondo also testified that Schmidt had been treating blood doping since 2011.

Since September 2020, the judicial processing of doping allegations against Schmidt has been taking place in the so-called bloodletting process . On January 15, 2021, the Munich II Regional Court sentenced him to four years and ten months imprisonment for sports fraud and dangerous bodily harm, combined with a three-year professional ban and a fine of 158,000 euros. Schmidt's helper, the handyman Dirk Q., was also sentenced to two years and four months in prison, while the nurse Diana S. received a suspended sentence of one year and four months. The paramedic Sven M. and Schmidt's father were sentenced to pay fines. Involved athletes were charged separately in their home countries and mostly sentenced to suspended sentences, including the Austrian racing cyclists Stefan Denifl and Georg Preidler . The doping expert Hajo Seppelt classified the judgment as progress in the fight against fraud in sport.

See also

Individual evidence

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