Nikethamide

• Nikotinsäurediethylamid
• N, N- Diethylnicotinamid

R07AB02

Stimulant

1.06 g · cm -3 ( 25 ° C)

23 ° C.

296-300 ° C

1.524 at 20 ° C.

Risk

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Nikethamide or nicethamide is a psychostimulant and causes primarily a respiratory and circulatory stimulation. It was formerly used among other things as a medical countermeasure after overdoses of sedatives.

In sports nikethamide heard like all stimulants to the banned doping substances. The case of the American sprint world champion Torri Edwards, who was in 2004 convicted of taking nikethamide and therefore banned for two years has been known.

2012, the 12 -year-old Polish Kart athlete Igor Walilko was acquitted by the International Sportsgerichthof after previously increased at a doping control nikethamide values ​​were found and therefore a two -year ban had been pronounced at first. The Sport Court evaluated the lock as excessive and disproportionate. The boy has been eaten energy bars containing nikethamide.

As part of the BMW Open 2013 Marin Cilic tested positive for nikethamide at a doping test. Čilić stated to have taken the remedy unknowingly purchased in a pharmacy on a tablet to be. Since this no performance -enhancing intent, he received a reduced ban of nine months, which applied retroactively from 1 May 2013 to 31 January 2014. The International Sports Court reduced the penalty then again on only four months, as he as not so serious considered the debt Čilićs as the Arbitration Court of the ITF.