Fernando Silva (athlete)

Fernando Silva , full name: Fernando Sérgio Rigor Silva (born June 1, 1980 ) is a Portuguese long-distance runner .

The specialist in cross-country runs was national champion in this discipline in 2004 and 2005.

At the European Cross Country Championships he came in 2003 in Edinburgh on 14th place and won bronze with the Portuguese team. In 2004 in Heringsdorf and 2005 in Tilburg , he finished eleventh. At the World Cross Country Championships in Avenches in 2003 he was ranked 43rd on the short distance and 47th on the long distance in 2004 in Brussels , 46th in Saint-Galmier in 2005 and 25th in Fukuoka in 2006 .

At the 2006 European Cross Country Championships in San Giorgio su Legnano, he came in second, but was subsequently disqualified when a doping sample he had submitted a week earlier tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO). Silva was banned for two years because of this doping rule violation .

In 2009 he finished sixth in the Prague Marathon , came 13th in the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Berlin and came third in the Saint-Denis Half Marathon.

In the following year he came in the cross-country world championships in Bydgoszcz on the 58th place. At the marathon of the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona , he did not reach the goal.

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personal data
SURNAME	Silva, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Silva, Fernando Sérgio Rigor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1980