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標題: [情報] Argentine Puerta banned for nine months for doping
時間: Wed Jan 7 15:04:55 2004
Argentine Puerta banned for nine months for doping
Tue 6 January, 2004 23:40
By Ossian Shine
PERTH, Australia, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Argentine tennis player Mariano Puerta has been banned from the sport for nine months, fined and stripped of ranking points after testing positive for a banned drug, men's tennis chiefs said on Wednesday.
Puerta, a promising claycourter once ranked as high as 18 in the world, tested positive for the class one substance clenbuterol during the 2003 ATP event in Vina del Mar, Chile, the ATP said.
Puerta is the third Argentine in three years to be banned for doping following Juan Ignacio Chela and Guillermo Coria's bans in 2001.
Chela was suspended from professional tennis for three months and thrown out of the world's top 500 in April 2001. The player, who has fought his way back to 38th in the world, tested positive for methyltestosterone, a prohibited steroid.
Later that year Coria, now ranked world number five, was suspended for seven months and fined $98,565 by the ATP after testing positive for the banned substance nandrolone.
Coria tested positive for the steroid when he was ranked 30th on the ATP entry system.
An independent Tennis Anti-Doping Program tribunal ruled that 25-year-old Puerta be suspended for nine months from October 3 last year when he stopped playing pending the tribunal.
Puerta will also forfeit 15 singles ranking points and $5,600 in prize money.
The Argentine will be eligible to return to competition after July 1, 2004.
The tribunal heard evidence from Puerta and the ATP in Miami on December 1, 2003, the ATP said.
Clenbuterol is an anabolic agent that promotes muscle growth. The tribunal determined that the player had been prescribed clenbuterol by his physician to treat an acute asthma attack and that the use had had no performance-enhancing benefits.
Puerta turned professional in 1995 and finished the 2003 season ranked No. 117 in the ATP rankings, posting a 5-14 singles record on the ATP circuit. His highest career singles ranking was 18 in 2000.
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