Scott Boothby
Scott Boothby is a male hammer thrower from the United States. Boothby is ranked among the top 20 Throwers in USA Track and Field History by Track and Field News Magazine. He was a two-time member of the US track and field team and participated in 3 Olympic Team Trials for Team USA. His best distance achieved was 243 feet 5 inches. Ranked among the top 50 throwers in the United States each year between 1995 and 2010.
Boothby was an alternate on the 2005 World Championship Team with a 4th-place finish at the 2005 USA National Championships. He competed actively from 1995 to 2011 and was a Division 1 NCAA All-American for Idaho State University, where he set school and Big Sky Conference Records.
In 2006 after initially retiring from competition for a full year, he was given an out of competition test, which revealed Finasteride and 6-oxo, an over-the-counter supplement. Boothby initially got eight years of ineligibility and disqualification of all results from June 25, 2006. The ban was later lifted and he was fully reinstated after it was found that he had not attempted to enhance his performance and that finasteride was no longer an IAAF banned substance. Finasteride is also known under the name Propecia and was/is a prescription hair loss drug. The substance 6-oxo was found to be from an over the counter food supplement that Boothby proved he had purchased from General Nutrition Corporation with good intent. .