María Luisa Calle

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María Luisa Calle Road cycling
María Luisa Calle (2011)
María Luisa Calle (2011)
To person
Full name María Luisa Calle Williams
Date of birth 3rd October 1968 (age 51)
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Railway (endurance) / road
doping
2015-2019 GHRP-2
Most important successes
Olympic games
2014 bronze - points race
UCI track world championships
2006 World Champion - ScratchWorld Champion
Last updated: February 13, 2020

María Luisa Calle Williams (born October 3, 1968 in Medellín ) is a Colombian racing cyclist who is equally strong on the road and on the track .

Athletic career

In 1999 María Luisa Calle Williams, the daughter of an Englishman and a Colombian, was the first Colombian road champion, in 2002 and 2007 she won the national title in the individual time trial . Also in 1999 she won the bronze medal in the points race and the silver medal in the points race at the Pan American Games . In 2007 she won the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in the single pursuit and came second in the points race.

2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , María Luisa Calle won the bronze medal in the points race, making it the first Colombian to win an Olympic medal in cycling. Their Olympic participation in 2000 in Sydney and 2008 it remained without medal success.

After a positive doping test for the stimulant heptaminol , Calle had to return her bronze medal from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. On a technicality of raised Court of Arbitration for Sport in October 2005, the disqualification and ordered the re-awarding of the medal.

Calles greatest success was winning the 2006 world title in Bordeaux in scratch ; the following year she was runner-up in this discipline at the championships in Palma .

In 2010, María Luisa Calle Williams finished first in the individual time trial at the South American Games in her hometown of Medellín and came third in the road race.

Doping ban 2015

Ten years later, in 2015, after her participation in the team pursuit of the Pan American Games in Toronto, there was again a positive doping test. As a result, she did not go to the start of the individual pursuit to defend her title. She was banned for four years for doping.

In August 2019 after the suspension came up, the 50-year-old started again at the third Colombian Cup in Medellín .

successes

train

2004
2005
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Panamerican Champion - One Pursuit
2006
2007
2011
2012
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Panamerican Champion - One Pursuit
2013
2015

Street

1999
  • MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Champion - Road Race
2001
  • PanAmericanJersey.png Pan American Champion - Individual Time Trial
2002
  • MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2006
2007
  • MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2010
2011
  • gold Pan American Games 2011 - Individual Time Trial
  • MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2012
  • MaillotColombia.PNG Colombian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2014

Web links

Commons : María Luisa Calle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bronze medal for Maria Calle Williams. International Olympic Committee , October 27, 2005, accessed May 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Nick Butler: Colombian Olympic cycling medalist latest to fail doping test at Toronto 2015. In: insidethegames.biz. July 22, 2015, accessed July 25, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Consequences Imposed on License Holders as Result of Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRV) as per the UCI Anti-Doping Rules (ADR). March 9, 2016, accessed March 26, 2016 . (PDF file)
  4. ↑ Tras ausencia de 4 años, María Luisa Calle retorna a las pistas (August 16, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Calle, María Luisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Calle Williams, María Luisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Medellin