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FORMER Wales international Sean Penkywicz’s career is effectively over after being given a two-year ban yesterday for failing a drugs test.
The 33-year-old Leigh hooker, who served a two-year drugs ban in 2005, underwent an out-of-competition test in December which later proved positive.
UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) said it was only the second time it had seen the use of GHRP-6, a banned substance used by bodybuilders.
Penkywicz, who played for Wales in World Cup qualifiers against Scotland and Lebanon in 2007 and won his last cap against England a year later, insists he never “knowingly injected myself with drugs” but was advised to accept the ban.
Penkywicz was with Huddersfield in 2005 when he was given a two-year ban after testing positive for the banned steroid stanozol.
He was in the Leigh team that won the Championship Grand Final at Headingley last October but has not played this season because of a knee injury.
