Julio Rey

Julio Rey ( born January 13, 1972 in Toledo, Spain ) is a Spanish long- distance runner who is particularly successful in the marathon. He was vice-champion in 2003 and won four times the Hamburg Marathon.

Rey was ninth in the 1997 World Cross Country Championships and eighth in the 10,000 - meter race of the World Championships in Athletics. In 1998, he ran the London Marathon to fourth place. In the Rotterdam Marathon in 1999 Julio Rey was tested positive for Mesterolone and then blocked for two years.

After his doping suspension Rey was hired for the Hamburg Marathon 2001 as a pacemaker, but ran through and won in 2:07:46 h A year later, he won the European Championships 2002 in Munich bronze. In 2003, he won again in Hamburg ( 2:07:27 h) and in the marathon at the World Championships in Paris in 2003, he won the silver medal. The following year he competed in the Olympic Games in Athens, but only reached the 58th place.

2005 ( 2:07:38 h ) and 2006 won Rey again in Hamburg ( 2:06:52 h, track record and Spanish national record ). At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 he finished third. In 2007 he said in Hamburg in favor of participating in the Paris Marathon, where he was at unusually warm weather of up to 25 ° C in 2:11:36 h ninth. At the Hamburg Marathon 2008, also in warm weather (up to 20 ° C), he was traded as a favorite, but was only Sixteenth in 2:13:20 h the Olympic marathon in Beijing, he could not finish.

Julio Rey has a weight of 51 kg at a height of 1.66 m.

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