Ioannis Drymonakos

Ioannis Drymonakos (Greek Ιωάννης Δρυμωνάκος, born January 18, 1984 in Athens ) is a Greek swimmer.

Career

Ioannis Drymonakos took twice participated in the Olympic games. 2000, the 25th place on the 200m butterfly was still his best finish. In 2004, he missed, however, the final of the 400 m medley and was just barely finally ninth.

21 March 2008 Drymonakos won the gold medal over 200 - meter butterfly at the European Championships in Eindhoven. He was the first to ever Greek to a new European record. After it became known that Drymonakos tested positive in a doping test ahead of the European Championships, he got both the European record, as well as the European title revoked.

Doping scandal

In May 2008 it was announced that at a training doping control in early March 2008, the urine sample from Drymonakos tested positive for the steroid trenbolone. The required sample B yielded the same result, what Drymonakos announced end of his career. The World Swimming Federation ( FINA) now had to decide what had to be done with the medals won by Drymonakos at the European Swimming Championships 2008 in Eindhoven and the Short Course World Championships 2008 in Manchester. After an initial decision in the fourth-placed Manchester Austrian swimmer Dinko Jukic was subsequently awarded the World Cup bronze medal. Later Jukic was in fourth place in the European Championships Eindhoven even there the bronze medal. The French swimmer Christophe Lebon inherited by the disqualification an EM bronze medal.