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Germany's Owen Ansah wins European 200m gold after anti-doping investigation
German sprinter Owen Ansah, who is under investigation by his country’s national anti-doping agency, won his second medal of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England on Friday with an 19.95s run for 200m gold.Running with a big tailwind (+3.5m/s), Ansah was third at halfway (10.40s) but closed better than the rest of the field to win by some margin ahead of Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes (silver in 20.16s) and Italian Eseosa Fostine Desalu (bronze, 20.26s).The 25-year-old adds that to his 100m bronze from Tuesday, when he finished in 10.19s behind British pair Romell Glave (10.09s, gold) and Jeremiah Azu (10.16s, silver).NADA, the German anti-doping agency, announced last Friday that they had sent a “letter of charge” to Ansah regarding an alleged violation of rule 2.3 o
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