Julio Rey

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Julio Rey (born January 13, 1972 in Toledo , Spain ) is a Spanish long-distance runner who is particularly successful in the marathon . He was vice world champion in 2003 and won the Hamburg marathon four times.

Rey was ninth in the 1997 Cross Country World Championships and eighth in the 10,000 meter run of the World Athletics Championships . In 1998 he finished fourth in the London Marathon . At the Rotterdam Marathon in 1999, Julio Rey tested positive for mesterolone and was then banned for two years.

After his doping ban , Rey was hired as a pacemaker for the Hamburg Marathon 2001, but ran through and won in 2:07:46 h. A year later he won bronze at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 . In 2003 he won again in Hamburg (2:07:27 h) and at the marathon of the 2003 World Championships in Paris he won the silver medal. The following year he started at the Olympic Games in Athens , but only reached the 58th place.

In 2005 (2:07:38 h) and 2006, Rey won again in Hamburg (2:06:52 h, course record and Spanish national record). At the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 he was third. In 2007 he canceled in Hamburg in favor of participating in the Paris Marathon, where he finished ninth in 2:11:36 h in unusually warm weather of up to 25 ° C. At the Hamburg Marathon 2008, also in warm weather (up to 20 ° C), he was traded as a favorite, but was only sixteenth in 2:13:20 hours. He could not finish the Olympic marathon in Beijing .

Julio Rey is 1.66 m tall and weighs 51 kg.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Hellmann: The ongoing suspicion , Frankfurter Rundschau September 13, 2007
  2. ↑ Julio Rey is supposed to set a course record for the Hamburg Marathon , Hamburger Morgenpost April 17, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Rey, Julio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo , Spain