Steve Mullings
Mullings at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin
Steve Mullings ( born November 28, 1982 in Saint Elizabeth Parish ) is a Jamaican sprinter.
In 2004 he won at the Jamaican championships in 200 -meter run. Subsequently, he was nominated for the Olympic Games in Athens. However, a positive doping result prevented his start. After the B sample had confirmed the illegal use of methyl testosterone by Mullings, he received a two-year competition ban.
After his return to the web, he first joined the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka again in appearance. He was a member of the Jamaican 4 x 100 - meter relay team that won the silver medal in the final. Mullings itself, however, was only used in the qualifying round.
At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, he was reinstated in the season and was allowed to compete as a starter for Jamaica in the finals this time. Together with Michael Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell, he won the gold medal in the championship record time of 37.31 s. Mullings joined in Berlin also about 200 meters and was in a new personal best of 19.98 s fifth.
Beginning of June 2011 increased Mullings his personal best in the 100 -meter run at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene significantly to 9.80 s In August, shortly before the World Championships in Daegu announced that he had positively prohibited at the Jamaican championships in late June on the sequestering agents furosemide was tested. He was not nominated at the world championships in Daegu for the team of Jamaica. In November, he was convicted by a three-member committee of the Jamaican Anti- Doping Commission of the repeated doping and life- long disabled.
Mullings was coached by Lance Brauman and was the training partner of the U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay.