Max Hauke

{{short description|Austrian cross-country skier}}

{{Infobox skier

| name = Max Hauke

| image = Max Hauke - Team Austria Winter Olympics 2018 crop.jpg

| caption = Max Hauke in 2018

| fullname =

| nationality = {{AUT}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|8|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Rottenmann, Austria

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| death_place =

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| club = WSV Ramsau

| seasons = 2012–2019

| wins =

| totalpodiums = 0

| teamwins =

| teampodiums = 0

| individual_starts = 54

| team_starts = 2

| wcoveralls = 0 – (80th in 2018)

| wctitles = 0

| updated = 12 April 2019

}}

Max Hauke (born 29 August 1992{{Cite web |url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-max-hauke |title=Sochi 2014 profile |access-date=2014-03-02 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407010717/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-max-hauke |url-status=dead }}) is a cross-country skier from Austria. He competed for Austria at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the cross-country skiing events.

During the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019, he was apprehended during a raid by Austrian police and charged with doping offenses alongside his teammate Dominik Baldauf and three other athletes from Estonia and Kazakhstan.

Soon after, a video surfaced showing Hauke being caught red-handed by the Austrian police in the middle of a blood transfusion as part of the act of blood doping.{{cite news |title=Five athletes arrested in anti-doping raids targeting ‘criminal organisation’ |agency=Reuters |location=United Kingdom |newspaper=The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/27/five-athletes-arrested-anti-doping-raids-targeting-criminal-organisation-skiing-world-championships |date=27 February 2019}}{{cite news |title=Doping-Skandal: Video zeigt Hauke mit Nadel im Arm |language=German |trans-title=Video Shows Hauke With Needle in Arm |publisher=Vorarlberg Online |location=Austria |url=https://www.vol.at/doping-skandal-video-zeigt-hauke-mit-nadel-im-arm/6113269 |accessdate=28 February 2019}} The policeman, who leaked the video in the private group of an instant messaging app, subsequent to which the video spread on the Internet, was charged with malpractice. The unidentified officer may face up to three years in prison, if found guilty.{{cite news |title=Austrian policeman charged for leaking skier's doping video |agency=The Associated Press |publisher=CBC |location=Canada |date=2019-03-25 |url= https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/crosscountry/policeman-charged-doping-video-skier-1.5070150 |accessdate=2019-11-29}} In a lengthy interview to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Hauke thought this to be the first such depiction in sports.{{cite news |last=Pettersson |first=Tomas |title=Ökände fuskaren: "Jag gjorde mitt livs misstag" |language=Swedish |publisher=Expressen |location=Sweden |date=2019-11-24 |url= https://www.expressen.se/sport/qs/max-fangades-pa-bild-nar-han-injicerade-blod/ |accessdate=2019-11-26 |quote=Det där var väl den första bilden som tagits av en idrottare som dopar sig på det där sättet?}}{{cite news |editor-last=Puhm |editor-first=Karl-Robert |title=Dopingupatuse anatoomia – Seefeldis vahele jäänud austerlane räägib hingelt kõik ära |language=Estonian |trans-title=The anatomy of a doping sinner - the Austrian caught in Seefeld tells everything off his soul |agency=Expressen |publisher=Postimees |location=Estonia |date=2019-11-26 |url= https://sport.postimees.ee/6835704/dopingupatuse-anatoomia-seefeldis-vahele-jaanud-austerlane-raagib-hingelt-koik-ara |accessdate=2019-11-29}}

In July 2019, Hauke was handed a four-year ban by the Austrian Anti-Doping Commission (ÖADR).{{cite news |url=https://www.sportsintegrityinitiative.com/austrian-skiers-sanctioned-with-four-year-bans-for-blood-doping/ |title=Austrian skiers sanctioned with four year bans for blood doping |date=24 July 2019 |accessdate=29 November 2019 |publisher=Vorarlberg Online}}