List of doping cases in sport (L)

This is a sub-list from List of doping cases in sport representing a full list of surnames starting with L.

Name Country Event Banned substance(s) Reference(s)
Raimonds Lācis  Latvia Weightlifting Furosemide [1] (in Latvian)
Marina Lacroix  France Swimming Cannabis [2]
Lee Lacy  United States Baseball Cocaine [1]
Francisca Laia  Portugal Canoeing Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone [3]
Juha Lallukka  Finland Cross-country skiing Growth hormone [4]
Óscar Lagos  Honduras Football (soccer) Cocaine, marihuana [5]
Bernard Lama  France Football (soccer) Cannabis [6]
Eric Lamaze  Canada Equestrian Cocaine [7]
Florin Lambagiu  Romania Kickboxing Winstrol,Turinabol,clostebol,meldonium [8]
Abreu Lamec  Venezuela Weightlifting Stanozolol [9]
Floyd Landis  United States Cycling Testosterone [10]
Jeremy Landy  France Water polo Cannabis [11]
Saskia Lang  Germany Handball higenamine [12][13]
Jose Langberg  Peru Swimming Cannabis [14]
Dmitry Lapikov  Russia Weightlifting Methylhexaneamine [9]
Konstantina Lapou  Greece Weightlifting [15]
Arnaud Laroche  France Swimming Testosterone [16]
Simon Larose  Canada Tennis Cocaine [17]
Mehrullah Lassi  Pakistan Boxing Cannabis [18]
Rick Leach  United States Baseball [19][20]
Pei-Lin Lee  Chinese Taipei Weightlifting Furosemide [9]
Lassouani Leila  France Weightlifting Norandrosterone 4,9 ng/ml [9]
Chun Leung Lau  Hong Kong Swimming Methandienone [21]
Matt Lawton  United States Baseball Boldenone [22]
Stan Lazaridis  Australia Football (soccer) Finasteride [23]
Larisa Lazutina  Russia Cross-country skiing NESP [24]
Fabien Le Bec  France Water polo Cannabis [11]
Chris Leben  United States Mixed martial arts Stanozolol [25][26]
Luc Leblanc  France Cycling Erythropoietin (EPO) (self admitted) [27]
Yann Lejuste  France Water polo cannabis [28]
Rasa Leleivytė  Lithuania Cycling EPO [29]
Benoit Lemeunier  France Swimming Cannabis [30]
Kayle Leogrande  United States Cycling Erythropoietin (non-analytical positive) [31]
Dimitru Leonard  Romania Weightlifting Norandrosterone [9]
Jeffrey Leonard  United States Baseball Cocaine [32]
Vladimir Leontiev  Russia Swimming Cannabis [16]
Kimo Leopoldo  United States Mixed martial arts Stanozolol
Varvara Lepchenko  United States Tennis Meldonium (Provisionally suspended)
Adrafinil, and metabolite modafinil (Suspended for four years)
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[34]
Stephen Letchford  England Ten-pin bowling Benzoylecgonine [35]
Nick Leventis  England Auto racing Anabolic steroids [36]
Nikita Leviakov  Russia Swimming Stanozolol, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone [21]
Clayton Lewis  New Zealand Football (soccer) Salbutamol [37]
Kristen Lewis  United States Swimming Pseudoephedrine [38]
Rashard Lewis  United States Basketball Steroids (ten-game suspension) [39]
Manukyan Liana  Armenia Weightlifting Metandienone [9]
Yohan Lidon  France Kickboxing, Muay Thai Heptaminol [40]
Semen Linder  Kazakhstan Weightlifting Stanozolol [9]
Li Ning  China Swimming [38]
Li Zhesi  China Swimming EPO [41]
Valiantsina Liakhavets  Belarus Weightlifting [9]
Rafael Liechti  Switzerland Water polo Cannabis [42]
Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall  Sweden Modern pentathlon Alcohol [43]
Mads Lind  Denmark Handball Anabolic steroids [44]
Lourdes Domínguez Lino  Spain Tennis Cocaine [45]
Marina Lisogor  Ukraine Cross-country skiing Trimetazidine [46][47]
Yuliya Litvina  Kazakhstan Swimming Methylhexaneamine [41]
Alexander Litvintchev  Russia Rowing [48]
Liu Bingyao  China Swimming Clenbuterol [49]
Jing Liu  China Swimming Prednisone [50]
Liu Xingchen  China Swimming Clenbuterol [2]
Jake Livermore  England Football (soccer) Cocaine [51]
Claudio Liverziani  Italy Baseball Amphetamines [52]
Jose Llanos Quiceno  Colombia Water polo THC, Cannabis [41]
Ryan Llewellyn  United Kingdom Boxing Methylhexaneamine [53]
Lewis Lloyd  United States Basketball Cocaine [54]
Paul Lo Duca  United States Baseball Steroids (Admission of guilt)[55]
Aleh Loban  Belarus Weightlifting Metandienone [9]
Romain Locher  France Water polo cannabis [28]
Joshua Loges  Germany Swimming Clenbuterol [2]
Héctor Lombard  Australia Mixed martial arts (MMA) Desoxymethyltestosterone [56]
Boris Loncaric  Croatia Swimming Methylhexaneamine [50]
Simos Loukas  Greece Water polo Methylphenidate [57]
Paulo Da Silva Loureiro  Portugal Volleyball Cannabinoids [58]
Sebastien Louveau  France Swimming Cannabis [30]
Didi Louzada  United States Basketball Drostanolone, testosterone [59]
Natalya Lovtsova  Russia Swimming [60]
Jake Lowther  United Kingdom Motorcycling [61]
Brenda Lozaique  Seychelles Weightlifting Metandienone [9]
Miryan Lozi  Albania Weightlifting [9]
Lü Bin  China Swimming [62]
Lu Leyujia  China Swimming Drostanolone [2]
Lu Meng  China Wrestling Diuretic [63]
Frank Luck  Germany Biathlon Turinabol (self-admitted) [64]
Lebron Luis  Puerto Rico Weightlifting Methylhexaneamine [9]
Vladislav Lukanin  Russia Weightlifting Noraxondrolone, Epioxandrolone [9]
Zach Lund  United States Skeleton Finasteride [65]
Luo Meng  China Wrestling Diuretic [63]
Zsolt Lutter  Hungary Swimming Refusal to submit to doping test [50]
Evgeny Luzyanin  Russia Rowing [48]
Kerry Lynch  United States Nordic combined Blood doping [66]

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