Max Hauke (born 29 August 1992[1][2]) is a cross-country skier from Austria. He competed for Austria at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the cross-country skiing events.

Max Hauke
Max Hauke in 2018
Country Austria
Born (1992-08-29) 29 August 1992 (age 32)
Rottenmann, Austria
Ski clubWSV Ramsau
World Cup career
Seasons20122019
Starts54
Podiums0
Overall titles0 – (80th in 2018)
Discipline titles0
Updated on 12 April 2019.

During the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019, he was apprehended during a raid by Austrian police and charged with doping offenses alongside his teammate Dominik Baldauf and three other athletes from Estonia and Kazakhstan.

Soon after, a video surfaced showing Hauke being caught red-handed by the Austrian police in the middle of a blood transfusion as part of the act of blood doping.[3][4] The policeman, who leaked the video in the private group of an instant messaging app, subsequent to which the video spread on the Internet, was charged with malpractice. The unidentified officer may face up to three years in prison, if found guilty.[5] In a lengthy interview to the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Hauke thought this to be the first such depiction in sports.[6][7]

In July 2019, Hauke was handed a four-year ban by the Austrian Anti-Doping Commission (ÖADR).[8]

World Cup results

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All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[1]

World Cup standings

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 Season   Age  Season standings Ski Tour standings
Overall Distance Sprint U23 Nordic
Opening
Tour de
Ski
World Cup
Final
Ski Tour
Canada
2012 20 NC DNP NC DNP DNP DNP
2013 21 NC DNP NC DNP DNP DNP
2014 22 130 83 NC DNP DNP DNP
2015 23 NC NC NC NC 89 43
2016 24 NC DNP NC DNP DNP DNP
2017 25 166 114 NC DNP 38 DNP
2018 26 80 51 DNP DNP DNP DNP
2019 27 97 63 NC 37 DNF DNP

References

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  1. ^ a b "Athlete : Max HAUKE". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Sochi 2014 profile". Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  3. ^ "Five athletes arrested in anti-doping raids targeting 'criminal organisation'". The Guardian. United Kingdom. Reuters. 27 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Doping-Skandal: Video zeigt Hauke mit Nadel im Arm" [Video Shows Hauke With Needle in Arm] (in German). Austria: Vorarlberg Online. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Austrian policeman charged for leaking skier's doping video". Canada: CBC. The Associated Press. 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  6. ^ Pettersson, Tomas (2019-11-24). "Ökände fuskaren: "Jag gjorde mitt livs misstag"" (in Swedish). Sweden: Expressen. Retrieved 2019-11-26. Det där var väl den första bilden som tagits av en idrottare som dopar sig på det där sättet?
  7. ^ Puhm, Karl-Robert, ed. (2019-11-26). "Dopingupatuse anatoomia – Seefeldis vahele jäänud austerlane räägib hingelt kõik ära" [The anatomy of a doping sinner - the Austrian caught in Seefeld tells everything off his soul] (in Estonian). Estonia: Postimees. Expressen. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
  8. ^ "Austrian skiers sanctioned with four year bans for blood doping". Vorarlberg Online. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
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