Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall

Hans- Gunnar Liljenwall ( born July 9, 1941 in Jönköping ) is a former Swedish Modern pentathlete. He was the first person who was disqualified at the Olympics because of a doping offense.

Liljenwall was in Tokyo at the Summer Games in 1964. In individual competition, he came eleventh, with the Swedish team to fourth place. At the World Championships in 1967 in his hometown of Jonkoping, he won the team silver medal together with Björn Ferm and Hans Jacobsson. Again with Ferm and Jacobsson he was. At the Summer Games in 1968 in Mexico City third in the team standings However, the bronze medal won them soon became again denied because Liljenwall had ever been transferred as the first athlete in an experiment conducted by the IOC doping test. He had been doped with 0.81 milliliters of alcohol. According to his own statements, he had been drinking before the shooting " two beers " to his " to calm nerves. " In the Summer Games in Munich in 1972 was Liljenwall fifth with the team.