David Jenkins (athlete)

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Olympic medal record
Men’s Athletics
Silver	1972 Munich	4x400 metre relay

David Andrew Jenkins (born May 25, 1952) was a Scottish athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. Sadly and some say without sufficient evidence, He was later convicted of drug offences.

Jenkins was educated at Edinburgh Academy, where he excelled at sport. In 1971, aged only nineteen, Jenkins won the 400 meters at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. He competed for Great Britain in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Martin Reynolds, Alan Pascoe and David Hemery. In 1974 he won the silver medal on the 400 meters at the European Athletics Championships in Rome as well as the gold medal in the 4x 400 metre with his team mates Glendon Cohen, William Hartley and Alan Pascoe. In 1976 and 1980 Jenkins placed 7th on the 400 metre at the Summer Olympics.

He later admitted to having taken performance-enhancing steroids during his athletics career.

In the 80s Jenkins together with Juan Javier Macklis and Dan Duchaine, a well known steroid guru, founded a company for the production of anabolic steroids in Mexico which they wanted to sell on the US market. Jenkins was arrested and in December 1988 found guilty by a US court of trafficking steroids worth around $100 million. He was sentenced to seven years in the Mojave Desert Prison, but was released after 9 months. In 1993 he and his partner Janet Carrol, founded Next Nutrition, a company which produced dietary supplements for athletes and bodybuilders.

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Today he lives in San Diego, California.

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