Aslı Çakır Alptekin

Aslı Çakır Alptekin
Aslı Çakır Alptekin at the 2012 World Indoor Championships
nation	Turkey
birthday
size	168 cm
Weight	50 kg
Career
discipline	1500 m , 3000 m obstacle
society	Üsküdar Belediyesi Spor Kulübü
Trainer	İhsan Alptekin

Aslı Çakır Alptekin (born August 20, 1985 in Antalya ) is a Turkish middle-distance and obstacle runner . In 2012 she won the 1,500 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki and at the Summer Olympic Games . Due to doping offenses , their results were canceled.

Career

As an obstacle runner , she started at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, but was eliminated in the preliminary stages.

Over 1500 m, she was fifth at the 2010 European Athletics Championships in Barcelona and at the Athletics Continental Cup in Split . At the 2011 World Cup in Daegu, she reached the semi-finals in the same discipline.

In 2011 she married her trainer İhsan Alptekin. In 2012 she was awarded the Sedat Simavi Prize .

doping

In 2004 she was tested positive for methenolone during a doping control and suspended for two years for this violation of the doping regulations . In March 2013, the biological passport revealed that Çakır had been doping again. In August 2015, she was banned for eight years as a repeat offender. All results since July 2010 have been canceled. These include a first place at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki, a third place at the 2012 World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, a fifth place at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona and a fifth place at the 2010 Continental Cup in Split, all over 1500 m . In follow-up tests for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she was again convicted of doping in 2016 and her results were canceled .

Personal bests

• 800 m : 2: 03.09 min, June 30, 2010, Izmir
• 1500 m: 4: 04.8 min, June 29, 2010, Izmir
• 3000 m obstacle: 9: 36.01 min, June 13, 2009, Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Aslı Çakır Alptekin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aslı Çakır Alptekin in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Aslı Çakır Alptekin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Doping: Turkish Confession . In: sueddeutsche.de . ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
2. ↑ Olympic champion Cakir Alptekin faces possible lifetime athletics ban . In: The Guardian . 22th of March 2013
3. ↑ Athletics: Olympic champion banned for eight years because of doping . In: Spiegel Online . 17th August 2015
4. ↑ Long-distance runner Elvan Abeylegesse banned for two years. Olympic runner-up banned for doping . Sport1, March 31, 2016; accessed on August 13, 2016