Dean Capobianco
{{short description|Australian sprinter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use Australian English|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Dean Capobianco
| image =
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| nationality = Australian
| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprints
| club = Curtin University
| birth_date = 11 May 1970
| birth_place = Perth, Australia
| death_date =
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| height =180 cm /
| weight =76 kg
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Dean Capobianco (born 11 May 1970) is an Australian former athlete, known best as a sprinter. He won the 1990 Stawell Gift and represented Australia in the 200 metres at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Biography
In 1993, he reached his peak in the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, when he set a new personal best of 20.18 seconds over 200 metres.{{cite web | url = http://www.wasportsfed.asn.au/anz_sports_star.php | title = Sports Stars of the Year from 1956 | work = WA Sports Federation | access-date = 2007-12-27 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20050713165846/http://www.wasportsfed.asn.au/anz_sports_star.php | archive-date = 13 July 2005 | df = dmy-all }}
Capobianco won the 1990 Stawell Gift with a time of 12.29 and a handicap of {{convert|2.25|m|yd}}.{{Cite web |title=Stawell Gift 120m results - 1878 to 2021 - Powercor Stawell Gift |url=https://www.stawellgift.com/stawell-gift-120m-results-1878-to-2017/ |access-date=2022-04-19 |website=www.stawellgift.com}}
He finished second behind John Regis in the 200 metres event at the British 1990 AAA Championships.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=28 June 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/aaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (men) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=28 June 2025}}
= Controversy =
An IAAF arbitration panel found Capobianco guilty of taking anabolic steroids, 10 months after he was cleared of any doping offence in a preliminary hearing by an IAAF independent arbitrator. IAAF general secretary Istvan Gyulai said that the reinstatement of Capobianco in July 1996 following a report for Athletics Australia by Robert Ellicott, QC, was a mistake. That inquiry cleared Capobianco on a technicality to run in the Olympic Games. In 1996, after months of legal challenge, Capobianco was banned from competition for four years by the IAAF for taking the banned steroid stanozolol after a meeting in Hengelo.{{cite news|url=http://www.coolrunning.com.au/news/1997n002.shtml|title=Capobianco banned for taking steroids|work=coolrunningaustralia|date=1997-03-17|access-date=2007-12-26|archive-date=8 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108054820/http://www.coolrunning.com.au/news/1997n002.shtml|url-status=dead}}
Capobianco raced in Dijon the day prior to Hengelo and returned a negative (clear) drugs test. Capobianco's costs for arbitration were paid by the IAAF and his ban was later reduced to 2 years.
Results
= World Athletics Championships =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" | |||
| Venue
!Event !Place !Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 World Championships in Athletics, Seville, Spain | 200 m - Men | Heats | 21.48 |
| 1995 World Championships in Athletics, Gothenburg, Sweden | 200 m - Men | 5th | 20.88 |
| 1993 World Championships in Athletics, Stuttgart, Germany | 200 m - Men | 4th | 20.18 |
[http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/athlete=4105/BioPopUp.html IAAF.org - Results]
=Olympics=
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" | |||
| Venue
!Event !Place !Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona | 200 m - Men | 1st (Round 1, heat 8) | 20.86 |
| 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona | 200 m - Men | 4th (Round 2, heat 3) | 20.61 |
| 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta | 200 m - Men | 4th (Qualifying, heat 8) | 20.76 |
| 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta | 200 m - Men | 7th (Quarter final, heat 2) | 21.03 |
| 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta | 4 × 100 m Relay - Men | 1st (Qualifying, heat 5) | 38.93 |
| 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta | 4 × 100 m Relay - Men | disqualified (Semi-final, heat 2) | |
| 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta | 4 × 400 m Relay - Men | 4th (Qualifying, heat 1) | 3:03.73 |
| 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta | 4 × 400 m Relay - Men | 7th (Semi-final, heat 1) | 3:04.55 |
Post-athletics career
In 2021 Capobianco was appointed CEO of the location data provider Geoscape Australia.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-18 |title=Satellites that can see through smoke to fight fires this summer |url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/satellites-that-can-see-through-smoke-to-fight-fires-this-summer-20230915-p5e4xn |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Australian Financial Review |language=en}}{{Cite web |author=Staff Writers |date=2021-05-02 |title=Appointments: Change of guard at ASIC, new blood at CASA |url=https://www.governmentnews.com.au/appointments-change-of-guard-at-asic-new-blood-at-casa/ |access-date=2025-04-20 |website=Government News |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080402001847/http://www.athletics.com.au/history/athletes/athlete335.htm Profile]
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/dean-capobianco-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418114240/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/dean-capobianco-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Dean Capobianco}}
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Category:Australian male sprinters
Category:Olympic athletes for Australia
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Australian sportspeople in doping cases
Category:Doping cases in athletics
Category:Western Australian Sports Star of the Year winners
Category:Athletes from Perth, Western Australia
Category:Doping cases in Australian track and field
Category:Australian Athletics Championships winners
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