Mads Glæsner

Mads Glæsner
Personal information
Full name Mads Glæsner
Nationality  Denmark
Born (1988-10-18) October 18, 1988
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes freestyle
Club Vallensbæk-VAT

Mads Glæsner (born October 18, 1988[1]) is a Danish swimmer. He participated for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the disciplines 400 metre freestyle and the 1500 metre freestyle. His swimming club is Vallensbæk-VAT but he trains at the National Training Center in Copenhagen. In June 2013, Glæsner was stripped of a gold and bronze medal from the 2012 World Short Course Championships after testing positive for levomethamphetamine.[2]

However, upon appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Glaesner's 1500-meter freestyle gold medal was reinstated based on the fact that a test after that race, two days after his initial positive test following the 400-meter free, was clean. He still forfeited the 400-meter freestyle bronze, which he did not appeal.[3]

References

  1. "ol.dk profile". Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  2. "FINA Doping Panel Decision: Mr. Mads Glaesner (DEN)". FINA. 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2013-06-17.
  3. Keith, Braden (February 4, 2014). "Mads Glaesner Appeal Upheld, He Will Retain World Championship Gold". SwimSwam.com. Retrieved February 4, 2014.


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