Javaughn Dill, the multiple “Mr Bermuda” winner, said it was never his intention to cheat after testing positive for a banned substance.

The bodybuilder is serving a four-year ban imposed by the Bermuda Sport Anti-Doping Authority for a failing a doping test administered during the Annual Night of Champions held at the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium at the CedarBridge Academy in August last year.

A urine sample submitted by Dill tested positive for Methandienone metabolites, an exogenous Anabolic Agent in addition to Methylhexeanamine and Oxilofrine — which are specified stimulants and listed on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s prohibited list.

He waived off the right to a hearing after being informed of the breach, acknowledged the anti-doping rule violation and accepted his sanction.

The 38-year-old, who trains at SeaView Ultimate Fitness Club, is ineligible to compete both locally and internationally until September 13, 2020.

Dill revealed that he was banned for taking a fat burner and not a performance enhancer.

“It was a fat burner that had a banned substance in it which showed up in the test,” he said.

“It was not a performance enhancer and so there was no intent to cheat. I was contacted by the anti-doping association and I didn’t bother to appeal against the ban because I’m self-employed so my focus was elsewhere.”

Dill won a fourth “Mr Bermuda” title at the Night of Champions in the absence of defending champion DeVon Bean, who was at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as a coach.

It remains unclear whether the father of three will be stripped of his title with Candy-Lee Foggo, the Bermuda Body Building and Fitness Federation president, unavailable for comment yesterday.

“This probably tarnishes my name because a lot of people look up to me,” Dill added. “But I want people to understand that my progression over the years has not been due to any performance enhancers but rather through hard work and proper eating.

“There are banned substances out there in all sorts of products like cough syrup and you might not think they’re on the list. But when you take them the chemicals change in your body and might show up on a test.

“In bodybuilding, automatically people are going to think you are taking steroids or some performance enhancer which was not the case. ”