Aslı Çakır Alptekin

Asli Cakir Alptekin at the World Indoor Championships in 2012

Asli Cakir Alptekin ( born August 20, 1985 in Antalya) is a Turkish middle-distance runner and obstacle, the 1500m Olympic champion was in 2012. It has been repeatedly found guilty of doping.

Career

As a runner obstacle they started in the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing and at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009, but different from each in the flow.

Over 1500 m, it was 2010 each fifth at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona and at the Athletics -Continental Cup in Split. In the World Cup 2011 in Daegu, she reached the semifinals in the same discipline.

Also over 1500 m they won on home soil in 2012 at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul the bronze medal. Your first major title she won at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, as it minutes before her compatriot Gamze Bulut won in 4:05,31. A month later she triumphed at the Olympic Games in London in 4:10,23 min.

Doping

In 2004 she was tested positive in a doping control on methenolone and locked because of this breach of the doping regulations for two years.

In March 2013 it was announced that Alptekin was again found guilty of doping using the biological passport. You now face a lifetime ban because of recidivism.

Personal Best

  • All times are from IAAF profile.
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