David Jenkins (sprinter), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

David Jenkins (sprinter)

athlete

Date of Birth: 25-May-1952

Place of Birth: Pointe-à-Pierre, Trinidad and Tobago

Profession: sprinter, drug trafficker

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About David Jenkins (sprinter)

  • David Andrew Jenkins (born 25 May 1952) is a Scottish former track and field sprinter, drug trafficker, convicted felon and informant who competed mainly in the 200 metres and 400 metres and was part of the UK relay team which won a silver medal at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics.
  • He later confessed to using performance enhancing anabolic steroids. Jenkins became involved in drug trafficking in the 1980s and it is estimated that at one time he was responsible for up to 70% of the steroids trafficked in the United States.
  • Jenkins was convicted in October 1987 of smuggling $100 million of illegal anabolic steroids into the United States, a felony, and was sentenced to seven years in federal prison in December 1988.
  • Following his early release from prison via a Rule 35 sentence reduction for becoming an informant, Jenkins was released from prison after only 10 months for time served.
  • Then he grew a legal fitness products enterprise in the form of NEXT Proteins.
  • He owns several issued patents in the US and 41 other countries around his invention of carbonated protein drinks.
  • Referring to David Hemery, the gold medal winner of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Jenkins told The Independent newspaper of Britain that, "I sold him down the river, and that wasn't cool." His brother Roger Jenkins is also a former athlete and was a prominent tax avoidance executive at Barclays Bank who faces a possible 22 years in prison after having been charged by the Serious Fraud Office (United Kingdom) with bank fraud.

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