Alexander Leipold

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Alexander Leipold
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Personal information
Birth nameAlexander Leipold
NationalityFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Born (1969-06-02) June 2, 1969 (age 55)
Alzenau, West Germany
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Sport
CountryFlag of Germany.svg  Germany
Sport Wrestling
Weight class74 kg
Event Freestyle
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Disqualified 2000 Sydney 76 kg
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Istanbul 68 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1999 Ankara 76 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Krasnoyarsk 76 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1995 Atlanta 74 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1998 Tehran 76 kg
World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1999 Spokane76 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1998 Stillwater76 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1997 Stillwater76 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2002 Spokane74 kg
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Bratislava 76 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1995 Fribourg 74 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Stuttgart 74 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Riga 74 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1997 Warsaw 76 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1999 Minsk 76 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Rome 74 kg

Alexander Leipold (born 2 June 1969 in Alzenau in Unterfranken) is a German former freestyle wrestler who won the German Championships eleven times, the European Championships three times, the World Championships in 1994, and won the tournament at the 2000 Summer Olympics but was later stripped of his gold medal for doping. [1]

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Wrestling career

Leipold won the German Junior Championships in freestyle wrestling in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989, and was runner-up in 1987. After being runner-up in the German Championships in 1988 and 1989, he won in 1991, 1992, 1994–1999, 2002, 2003 and 2005, and was runner-up in 2004 and third in 1993.

He was runner-up in the European Junior Championships in 1985 and finished fifth in 1987. He won the European Espoir Championships in 1988, and finished sixth in the European Championships the same year before winning them in 1991, 1995 and 1998. He was runner-up in 1997 and 2003, and third in 1994 and 1999.

He won the World Espoir Championships in 1984 the World Championships in 1994, and was runner-up in 1995, 1997 and 1999, and third in 1998. [2]

At the 1988 Summer Olympics, he finished seventh, in 1992 thirteenth, and at the 1996 Olympics fifth. [3] [4]

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won the freestyle tournament, winning the final 4–0 against Brandon Slay. Leipold then tested positive for norandrosterone and noretiocholanolone, which are used to prove the presence of the steroid nandrolone, [5] and the gold medal was awarded to Slay. [6] Prince Alexandre de Merode, the chairman of the IOC medical commission, was quoted as saying that Leipold's sample showed 20 nanograms of nandrolone per milliliter of urine, whereas the limit was 2 nanograms per milliliter. [7]

The German Wrestling Federation suspended Leipold for two years, but the suspension was lifted because the federation had taken more than the permitted seven days to announce their decision. [8]

Leipold had a receipt for 50 milliliters of urine for the B sample, but the laboratory report stated that 85 milliliters had been tested. He appealed the decision of the IOC and his suspension from competition was reduced from two years to one year, and he was not required to pay the costs. [3]

Another freestyle wrestler, the Mongolian Oyunbileg Purevbaata, also failed a doping test at the same Olympics. [5] [6]

In 2003, Leipold suffered a heart attack during a competition in Tashkent and was paralysed on one side, [3] and suffered a further two heart attacks, [9] but recovered relatively quickly, so that he was able to continue wrestling. [10]

Trainer

He studied and qualified in April 2009 for a trainer diploma at the Trainer Academy Cologne, and was German federal trainer for juniors in free style wrestling until 2015

Personal life

He married Juliana Marx, [3] and lives with his wife and two sons in Karlstein am Main.

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