Mikuláš Konopka

Mikuláš Konopka (born January 23, 1979 in Rimavská Sobota ) is a former Slovak shot putter .

The 1998 Junior World Champion was eliminated from the qualification at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton.

At the European Indoor Athletics Championships in 2002 in Vienna, he originally took third place, but was subsequently disqualified for doping with Stanozolol and banned for two years.

In 2004 he was tenth at the Olympic Games in Athens , in 2005 sixth at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid and eleventh at the World Championships in Helsinki .

A qualifying round at the European Athletics Championships 2006 in Gothenburg was followed by the gold medal at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007 and a qualification at the World Championships in Osaka .

During a doping control on May 13, 2008, he tested positive for metandienone and was then banned for life.

Personal best

• Shot put: 20.66 m, May 31, 2001, Ostrava
  • Hall: 21.57 m, March 2nd 2007, Birmingham

Web links

• Mikulas Konopka in the database of World Athletics (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ European Athletic Association : One positive doping test at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . May 2, 2002
2. ^ IAAF: Doping Rule Violation ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). August 28, 2008