Career
As an athlete he is best known as a sprinter. In 1993, he reached his peak in the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, when he set a new personal best of 20.18 seconds over 200 metres. Controversy
An IAAF arbitration panel found Capobianco guilty of taking anabolic steroids.
IAAF general secretary Istvan Gyulai said that the reinstatement of Capobianco in July 1996 following a report for Australia by Robert Ellicott, Queen's Counsel, was a mistake.
That inquiry cleared Capobianco on a technicality to run in the Olympic Games. In 1996, after months of legal challenge, Capobianco was banned from competition for four years by the IAAF for taking the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol after a meeting in Hengelo.
Capobianco raced in Dijon the day prior to Hengelo and returned a negative (clear) drugs test. Capobianco"s costs for arbitration were paid by the IAAF and his ban was later reduced to 2 years.
World Championships
Olympics
Capobianco became a commercial director with ninemsn in early 2011.
