Anca Heltne

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Anca Margareta Heltne , née Vâlceanu , (born January 1, 1978 in Câmpulung , Argeș County ) is a Romanian athlete .

Career

For the then fourteen-year-old Anca Vâlceanu, the starting point for engaging in competitive sports was a handball game in which she injured the opposing goalkeeper's hand with a powerful ball throw. She then enrolled at the sports school in her hometown to use the strength she had in a meaningful way. Later she studied in Craiova at the Institutul de Educație Fizică și Sport and the Faculty of Physiotherapy .

Her first trainer was Gabriel Bădescu , who referred her to her current specialty, the shot put , after two months of support in javelin throwing . Through Bădescu, she also met the Norwegian decathlete Rune Heltne (* 1980), who came to Câmpulung in 2000 because of the good training conditions. The couple married in January 2001, and since then the sportswoman has competed under the name Anca Vâlceanu-Heltne or, in recent years, under the name Anca Heltne .

Currently, Heltne is trained by her husband at Clubul Sportiv Farul Constanța . She took part in the Olympic Games in 2008 , where she did not reach the final as 23rd of the preliminary fight. She also failed in qualifying at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka and 2009 in Berlin .

After she was unable to qualify for the final at the European Indoor Championships in 2007 , she achieved her best international placement at the 2009 European Indoor Championships when she won the bronze medal with a 18.71 m kick.

Helte won the national championship title indoors in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and outdoors in 2007 and 2009.

At the national indoor championships in 2010 she was tested positive in the subsequent doping control . Her results since then, including a seventh place finish at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha , have been canceled and a two-year ban has been imposed for this doping rule violation . After her suspension expired, Heltne took part in the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 . She was able to qualify for the final, but took twelfth place with a pushed width of 16.39 m and thus missed the qualifying distance for the Olympic Games in London by almost two meters. In 2013, Heltne first came seventh at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg and later moved up to sixth place because of the subsequent disqualification of Yevgenia Kolodko .

Anca Heltne is 1.75 m tall and weighs 76 kg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La comunità romena of March 10, 2009 , accessed on January 3, 2010
  2. ^ IAAF: Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an anti-doping rule violation ( Memento from October 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). September 9, 2010
  3. ↑ Telegraf of June 30, 2012 , accessed on August 28, 2012 (Romanian)

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personal data
SURNAME Heltne, Anca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vâlceanu, Anca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Câmpulung , Argeș County