Manfred Donike (23 August 1933, Köttingen,

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– 21 August 1995, on a flight from Frankfurt am Main to Johannesburg) was a German cyclist and chemist, known for his research on

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. Donike lived in Rölsdorf. Donike studied chemistry in Cologne and graduated in 1965. By 1972, Donike had developed a procedure capable of accurate detection of banned substances and their metabolites through analysis, using

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and

mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions. The results are presented as a ''mass spectrum'', a plot of intensity as a function of the mass-to-charge ratio. Mass spectrometry is use ...

, of urine. In 1977, Donike was hired by the German Sport University Cologne to lead the biochemistry department. In 1960 and 1961 Donike competed in the Tour de France. His son, also called

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, competed at the

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. Donike died of a heart attack on 21 August 1995 in an airplane while en route to Johannesburg, South Africa.

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1933 births 1995 deaths People from Erftstadt Sportspeople from Cologne (region) People from the Rhine Province German male cyclists Drugs in sport Ben Johnson doping case 20th-century German chemists Cyclists from North Rhine-Westphalia {{Germany-cycling-bio-stub