Anca Heltne

Anca Heltne Margareta, born Vâlceanu, ( born January 1, 1978 in Câmpulung, county Arges ) is a Romanian track and field athlete.

Career

Starting point for the operation of competitive sports was a handball game in which she had injured by a massive ball impact on the hand of the opposing goalkeeper for the then fourteen- year-old Anca Vâlceanu. She enrolled subsequent to the Sports School in her home town in order to make proper use the force in its possession. Later she studied in Craiova on the Institutul de educatie Fizică şi Sport and the Department of Physiotherapy.

My first coach was Bădescu Gabriel, who after two months of care in the javelin on their current special discipline, the shot put, pointed. About Bădescu she met the Norwegian decathlete Rune Heltne (* 1980 ), who had come in 2000 because of the good training conditions after Câmpulung. The couple married in January 2001, and since then takes the athlete under the name Anca Vâlceanu - Heltne and in recent years under the name Anca Heltne regular competitor.

Currently Heltne is trained at Clubul Sportiv Farul Constanta from her husband. She participated in the 2008 Olympics, but where they did not reach 23 as the Vorkampfes the final. Also at the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka and 2009 in Berlin, she had already failed in qualifying.

After she could not even qualify for the final at the IAAF European Indoor Championships in 2007, she succeeded at the European Indoor Championships 2009 her best international placement, when she won the bronze medal with 18.71 m of beaten.

Helte won in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 national champion in the hall as well as 2007 and 2009 in the open.

In the National Indoor Championships 2010, she tested positive in the subsequent doping control. Your results since that time, including a seventh place finish at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010, were canceled and imposed a two-year ban for this violation of the doping regulations. After its lock had expired, Heltne participated in Helsinki at the European Athletics Championships in 2012. She could indeed qualify for the final, finished there, but with a length of 16.39 m of beaten only twelfth place and thus failed to qualify width for the London Olympics by almost two meters.

Anca Heltne is 1,75 m tall and weighs 76 kg.