Four years and ten months.

And that he is suspended from the medical profession for three years.

The German doctor Mark Schmidt will receive that punishment, after systematically helping athletes to take blood doping between 2012 and 2019.

Swedish doctor and anti-doping expert Åke Andrén Sandberg welcomes the verdict.

- From anti-doping-Sweden, we are extremely grateful that it is finally finished.

We are very happy that this can be revealed and those who do this get their punishment, says Åke Andrén Sandberg who is also chairman of the Swedish doping commission.

- The actual punishment and punishment I have less views on.

The important thing is that such organizations are broken up and cannot continue.

Those who do this kind of thing must be locked up.

Then whether they get two years or four years does not matter much.

The main thing is that they should move away from everything that has to do with sports, he continues.

What signals does this verdict send?

- There will always be people who try to dope themselves.

We will always live with that.

But they should know that it gets harder and harder every year to dope themselves.

To my medical colleagues, it sends the signal that it is not a good way to make money.

They can get caught and can receive very significant penalties.

I think this is an important signal to everyone who is doing it, says Åke Andrén Sandberg.

A victory for the anti-doping work

Andrén Sandberg has followed the investigation into Mark Schmidt closely - and believes that the verdict is a triumph for the doping hunters.

- It is a long and arduous work that lies behind, then it was revealed in a spectacular way.

But it was no coincidence.

We do a lot of work that the media and athletes do not see.

That work gets better with each passing year.

Then we have the international cooperation which is very good.

When there is a new trend or a new substance and it is revealed, you know it all over the world within a few weeks.

It is extremely effective, says Åke Andrén Sandberg.

Åke Andrén Sandberg believes that Mark Schmidt will not return in a doping context after serving his sentence.

- You can only speculate, but I never think he will do doping again.

One can only hope that he comes up with better ideas and takes care of sick people instead of making people sick, says Andrén Sandberg.