Hélder Ornelas

Hélder Ornelas
nation	Portugal
birthday	6th May 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Nova Lisboa ,  Angola
size	176 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	Long distance running

Hélder Ornelas (born May 6, 1974 in Nova Lisboa , Angola ) is a Portuguese long-distance runner .

As a participant in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he was eliminated in the semifinals over 5000 m . The following year he was eighth at the World Cross Country Championships in Ostend . At the end of the year he finished 21st at the European Cross Country Championships in Thun and won bronze with the Portuguese team. At the European Cross Country Championship 2002 in Medulin, he was fifth and again took bronze in the team standings.

In 2005 he won the Milan Marathon on his debut over the 42.195 km distance . In the marathon of the European Athletics Championships in 2006 , he finished 15th. In 2007 he won the Prague Marathon . In 2008 he came in 46th place in the marathon of the Olympic Games in Beijing . In 2009 he finished second in the Saint-Denis half marathon.

In May 2011, the surveys for his Biological Passport revealed an abnormal blood profile. A panel of three hematologists ruled out natural causes and concluded that a prohibited substance or method had been used. After ten months of investigation, the Portuguese Athletics Federation (FPA) imposed a four-year ban in May 2012. It was the first time that a doping sanction was imposed on an athlete based on the biological passport. The IAAF banned him until January 12, 2016.

Personal bests

• 3000 m : 7: 50.02 min, September 1, 2000, Berlin
• 5000 m: 13: 18.56 min, June 30, 2000, Rome
• 10,000 m : 28: 01.94 min, April 7, 2001, Barakaldo
• Half marathon : 1:02:57 h, October 18, 2009, Saint-Denis
• Marathon: 2:10:00 h, December 4, 2005, Milan

Web links

• Hélder Ornelas in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Hélder Ornelas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr

Footnotes

1. ^ IAAF: Portugal's Ornelas runs an impressive 2:09 debut in Milan . 4th December 2005
2. ↑ IAAF: President Klaus official starter at Prague Marathon - Portugal and Russia take honors . May 13, 2007
3. ^ IAAF: First doping violation concluded in Athletics on the basis of the Athlete Biological Passport . May 2, 2012
4. ↑ Doping: IAAF convicts doping offenders with bio-pass for the first time . In: Focus . May 2, 2012
5. ↑ List of athletes banned by the IAAF ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , As of July 8, 2015 (PDF, English)