Iulia Olteanu
Medal record | ||
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Women's athletics
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Representing Romania | ||
World Half Marathon Championships
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1994 Oslo | Half marathon | |
Universiade
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1993 Buffalo | 10,000 m | |
1995 Fukuoka | 10,000 m |
Iulia Olteanu (née Negură; born 26 January 1967) is a
events.She made her breakthrough on the international scene with consecutive wins at the
Olteanu was the silver medallist at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, setting a lifetime best of 1:09:15. She was victorious at the 1996 European Cross Country Championships but was stripped of her title as she had failed a test for the steroid stanozolol and received a two-year competitive ban for doping. After her ban had expired, she was again selected for the Romanian cross country and half marathon teams, but failed to medal. She competed in her first marathon in 2002 but retired from international competition in 2003.
Among her other achievements are two consecutive 10,000 m titles at the
Career
Early career
Born Iulia Negură in
World and Olympic competition
In 1992 she reached the top twenty at the 1992 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and also ran at the newly inaugurated IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, where she was tenth overall.[4] Among her appearances on the circuit that year was a win over 10 miles at the Great South Run in Portsmouth.[6] She won the race for a second time the next year and improved upon her previous position at the 1993 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships, finishing the race in seventh to help Romania to the women's team title with Elena Murgoci and Anuța Cătună.[7] She represented Romania in the 10,000 m at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, coming sixteenth.[4]
She was first at the 1994
She was 29th in the long race at the 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, sharing in the team bronze medal, while her eleventh-place finish at the 1995 European Cross Country Championships brought Romania the team silver medals at that event. Olteanu ran at the 1995 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships but did not manage to finish the race on that occasion. At the beginning of 1996 she won the Chiba International Cross Country in Japan.[12] She took twelfth place at the 1996 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, helping Romania to another team bronze, and made her Olympic debut on the track in August. Setting a career best mark of 31:26.46 minutes, she came eighth in the women's 10,000 m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.[4]
Stripped title and doping ban
Olteanu ended the year with her first win at a major continental competition, taking the
Later career
She made her international return at the
Olteanu decided to make a change up to the marathon distance in 2002 and she finished the Vienna City Marathon in a time of 2:40:14 hours, placing sixth.[18] The 2003 season saw her final year of international competition: despite a win at the national half marathon championships, she failed to finish the race at the World Championships that year.[4]
Personal bests
- 5000 metres - 15:06.73 mins (1999)
- 10,000 metres - 31:26.46 mins (1996)
- Half marathon - 1:09:15 hrs (1994)
- Marathon - 2:40:14 hrs (2002)
- All information from IAAF Profile[4]
See also
References
- ^ Iulia Negură Archived 2012-08-07 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ a b IAAF World Women's Road Race Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Foulées de Suresnes 10 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2010-07-06). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Romanian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Great South Run. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Marseille-Cassis 20.3 km. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2010-11-01). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ 20K de Paris. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2010-10-12). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ a b World Student Games (Universiade) - Women. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ World Student Cross Country Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ a b Chiba International Crosscountry. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2011-02-14). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Athletics: Negura faces drugs ban. The Independent (1997-01-21). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Athletics: Romanians sack coach . The Independent (1997-04-10). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ Romania Defends Its Two-Year Negura Ban[dead link]. Xinhua News Agency (1997-02-21). Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- ^ "An eighty years of history of Japan Association of Athletics Federations" (日本陸上競技連盟八十年史), 2005, Japan Association of Athletics Federations. pp.150-151.
- ^ 2001 AIMS ROAD RACE LISTS (statistics). AIMS. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.
- Running Times. Retrieved on 2011-03-03.