Three more athletes have been punished after failing drug tests during the Athens Paralympics. Iranian powerlifter Seyed Habibollah Mousavi, who won the +100kg category, has been stripped of his medal and world record and banned for two years.
Powerlifter Vladimir Buben of Belarus, has been handed a lifetime ban after testing positive for an anabolic agent - his second offence.
Austrian shotputter Wolfgang Dubin was stripped of his silver medal.
Mousavi tested positive for the anabolic agent, metandienone, which is on the banned list.
Dubin returned a positive test for the stimulant propylhexedrine but has not been given a ban.
During the Games, three athletes were stripped of medals for failing drug tests.
A total of 680 tests were carried out at the Paralympics.
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