Liza Hunter-Galvan
Liza Hunter-Galvan (born Liza Marie Hunter ; born June 5, 1969 in Auckland ) is a New Zealand marathon runner .
On the recommendation of the legendary coach Arthur Lydiard , she came to the United States in 1989 , where she received an athletic scholarship from the University of Texas at San Antonio . At the university she met her future husband Ariel, with whom she settled in San Antonio , where she worked as a middle school teacher. The couple had four children.
In 1995 she won the San Antonio Marathon for the first time ; five more victories followed, in 1998 and four times in a row from 2003 to 2006.
In 2004 she was fourth in the Austin Marathon and fifth in the Hamburg Marathon . At the Olympic Games in Athens , she came in 51st place. At the end of the season she won the Dallas White Rock Marathon .
The following year she was ninth in Hamburg, finished 39th at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki and was third in Dallas.
At the beginning of the year, she and her family suffered a serious car accident in which their eldest daughter sustained severe head injuries and was in a coma for a month. In autumn she was fifth in the Amsterdam Marathon in 2:30:40 h. Although she was nearly three minutes below the national norm, the New Zealand Athletics Federation only nominated her for the 2008 Olympic Games after taking the national sports court to court. In Beijing she finished 35th in 2:34:51. In the same year she was second in San Antonio with her personal best of 2:29:37 and in Dallas.
During a training check on March 23, 2009, she tested positive for erythropoietin (EPO) and was then banned for two years for this violation of the doping regulations . Confronted with the laboratory results, the athlete confessed to using EPO three times in the weeks before the test. The National Olympic Committee also announced that she will be banned from participating in the London 2012 Olympics.
Web links
- Liza Hunter-Galvan in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
Individual evidence
- ^ The New Zealand Herald : Sport guardian condemns athlete's "cheating" . August 29, 2009
- ↑ The New Zealand Herald : Athletics: "Failure" leads to drug use . August 30, 2009
- ^ The New Zealand Herald : Athletics: Dope-taking runner out for London . September 2, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunter-Galvan, Liza |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hunter, Liza Marie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand marathon runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auckland |