Fani Chalkia

Fani Chalkia
nation	Greece
birthday	2nd February 1979
place of birth	Larisa
size	175 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	Hurdles

Faní Chalkiá ( Greek Φανή Χαλκιά , also Faní Halkiá [ faˈni xalˈca ]; born February 2, 1979 in Larisa ) is a Greek hurdler and Olympic champion in the 400 meter hurdles .

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens she surprisingly won ahead of Ionela Târlea -Manolache (ROM) and Tetjana Tereschtschuk-Antipowa (UKR) with her personal record of 52.77 seconds. The fact that she was more than three and a half seconds faster than the previous season caused a particular stir.

After she had to sit out due to injury in the 2005 season, she started at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg as the favorite, but only finished second behind the Russian Yevgenia Issakova . In 2007 she was eliminated in the semifinals of the 2007 World Championships in Osaka.

In the 400-meter run , she was sixth at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and sixth at the 2006 World Cup.

She was convicted of doping during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . A urine test carried out on her at Fukui training camp on August 10, shortly before the start of the Games , revealed the banned anabolic steroid methyltrienolone . After the B sample confirmed the result, the athlete was excluded from the games and suspended for two years until September 2010. Faní Chalkiá has a competition weight of 64 kg with a height of 1.75 m.

Personal bests

• 400 m - 50.56 seconds
• 400 m hurdles - 52.77 seconds

Web links

• Fani Chalkia in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Fani Chalkia in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

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1. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Fani Halkia tested positive . August 17, 2008
2. ^ IOC : IOC Disciplinary Commission - Decision regarding Ms Fani Chalkia . August 18, 2008