Dean Capobianco

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.

Capobianco won the 1990 Stawell Gift with a time of 12.29 and a handicap of .

He finished second behind John Regis in the 200 metres event at the British 1990 AAA Championships.

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. 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 VenueEventPlaceTime1999 World Championships in Athletics, Seville, Spain 200 m - Men Heats 21.481995 World Championships in Athletics, Gothenburg, Sweden 200 m - Men 5th 20.881993 World Championships in Athletics, Stuttgart, Germany 200 m - Men 4th 20.18

Olympics VenueEventPlaceTime1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona 200 m - Men 1st (Round 1, heat 8) 20.861992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona 200 m - Men 4th (Round 2, heat 3) 20.611996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta 200 m - Men 4th (Qualifying, heat 8) 20.761996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta 200 m - Men 7th (Quarter final, heat 2) 21.031996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta 4 × 100 m Relay - Men 1st (Qualifying, heat 5) 38.931996 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) 3:03.731996 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.