Mikulas is pictured above during the final of the mens Shot Put at the 2007
European Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham.
He won the gold medal with a new indoor national record effort of 21.57m.
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Men's Shot Put Final.
2007 European Indoor Championships.
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| 1. Mikulas Konopka |
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SVK |
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21.57m |
| 2. Pavel Lyzhyn |
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BLR |
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20.82m |
| 3. Joachim Olsen |
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DEN |
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20.55m |
| 4. Robert Haggblom |
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FIN |
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20.26m |
| 5. Andrei Mikhnevich |
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BLR |
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20.12m |
| 6. Conny Karlsson |
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FIN |
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20.09m |
| 7. Miran Vodovnik |
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SLO |
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19.46m |
| 8. Gaetan Bucki |
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FRA |
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18.72m |
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Konopka originally won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Indoor Championships
with a personal best throw (indoor) of 20.87 metres, but tested positive for stanozolol
and lost the medal. He was suspended between March 2002 and March 2004.
On 13 May 2008 he was tested positive for metandienone and subsequently received
a lifetime ban from competing. Sporting Hero ? Maybe not.