Background
Blake Leeper was born in Kingsport, Tennessee with both legs missing below the knee, and has worn prosthetics since nine months of age.
Blake Leeper was born in Kingsport, Tennessee with both legs missing below the knee, and has worn prosthetics since nine months of age.
He is serving a one-year ban through June 2016 because he tested positive for cocaine. In his childhood, Blake participated in various sports, baseball, basketball et cetera with his dad coaching. He studies medicine at the University of Tennessee.
Leeper made his international debut in 2009 at Rio de Janeiro.
On February 1, 2016, the United States. Anti-Doping Agency announced that Leeper tested positive for benzoylecgonine from a sample collected on June 21, 2015 at the United States. Paralympic Track & Field National Championships held in Saint Paul, Minnesota Benzoylecgonine is a metabolite of cocaine, a substance in the class of Stimulants prohibited under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing and the International Paralympic Committee Anti-Doping Code, both of which have adopted the World Anti-Doping Code (“Code”) and the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.
lieutenant was determined that Leeper’s use of cocaine was not intended to enhance performance, and in consideration of other mitigating factors, he was deemed eligible for a reduced, one-year sanction. Blake Leeper"s personal management is currently under the supervision of businessman, philanthropist Robert Lorsch.
Blake credits his outstanding positive attitude to his family.
