Søren Wulff Johansson (26 August 1971 – 8 August 2020) was a Danish
decathlete. He was the first Danish person to receive a lifetime ban from sport, after failing
doping tests for
anabolic steroids
Anabolic steroids, also known as anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), are a class of drugs that are structurally related to testosterone, the main male sex hormone, and produce effects by binding to the androgen receptor (AR). Anabolic steroids ...
in 1989 and 1995.
Johansson was a two-time
Danish Athletics Championships winner. He was the
athletics pentathlon
In the sport of athletics, pentathlons have taken various forms over the history of the sport, typically incorporating five track and field events. The only version of the event to remain at a high level of contemporary competition is the women' ...
champion in 1994 and the decathlon champion in 1995. His personal best performance in the decathlon was 6982 points.
1992 Decathlon World Rankings
Decathlon2000. Retrieved on 2016-04-11.
He was a member of several athletics clubs: Aalborg AK until 1989, Trongården in the 1991/1992 season, Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the Evrotas Valley, valley of Evrotas (river), Evrotas rive ...
in 1993 and Copenhagen Idræts Forening 1994/1995.
National titles
* Danish Athletics Championships
**Pentathlon: 1994
**Decathlon: 1995
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Johansson, Soren Wulff
2020 deaths
1971 births
People from Aalborg Municipality
Danish decathletes
Danish male athletes
Doping cases in athletics
Danish sportspeople in doping cases
Sportspeople banned for life
Athletes from the North Jutland Region