Marc Raquil

Marc Raquil, born on 2 April 1977, is a French sprinter of Martiniquais origin who competed in the 400 metres and the 4 x 400 metres relay. At the 2003 World Championships he won the relay gold and the 400 metres silver. Both results were upgraded after the fact: in 2004 the United States relay team was stripped of its gold medals because of failed drug tests by Calvin Harrison and Jerome Young, so France was retroactively awarded the relay gold, and since Young had also won the individual 400 metres, Raquil was retroactively awarded the silver there as well. He also won three gold medals and one bronze medal at the European Indoor and Outdoor Championships. His personal bests include 44.79 seconds for 400 metres in 2003. Injuries kept him out of the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games and the 2007 World Championships, and in 2011 the French Anti-Doping Agency suspended him for one year for failing to submit to periodic anti-doping tests.