Margarita Fullana

Margarita Fullana

To person
Full name	Margarita Fullana Riera
Date of birth	9th April 1972 (age 48)
nation	Spain
discipline	Mountain bike , road , cross
doping
2010	2-year ban, Epo
Most important successes
Olympic games 2000 - Cross Country World championships Mountain bike world champion 1999 , 2000 , 2008 Spanish road championships Spanish road race champion 1999 Spanish champion cross duathlon 2016
Last updated: January 15, 2018

Margarita Fullana Riera (born April 9, 1972 in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar as Margarita Fullana ) is a Spanish cyclist , three-time mountain bike world champion and two-time European cross-duathlon champion (2015, 2016).

Career

Cycling career

Margarita has been one of the strongest Spanish cyclists since the late 1980s and is successful on the road , mountain bike and in cyclo-cross races . Even as a junior, she won podium places in Spanish road championships. In 1993 she became the Spanish runner-up in the women's road race and in 1999 the Spanish champion.

Margarita Fullana competed three times in Cross Country at the Olympic Games; In 2000 in Sydney she won the bronze medal. In 1997, Fullana was third at the Mountain Bike World Championships in Cross Country . In 1999, 2000 and 2008 she won the world title.

In 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2005 she was third in each of the European championships. In 2002 she took second place in the Mountain Bike World Cup . In 2009 she was also the Spanish runner-up in the cyclo-cross race, and in 2013 the Spanish champion in cross-country.

Doping ban 2010

In August 2010, the 38-year-old was tested positive for doping with Epo during a training check and was banned for two years until the end of September 2012.

Comeback after the 2013 duathlon suspension

In 2013 she started at the state championship in duathlon and finished ninth.

In October 2015, Margarita Fullana became European cross-duathlon champion in Romania and she was able to repeat this success in 2016. Her nickname is "Marga".

Sporting successes

Web links

• Margarita Fullana in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Margarita Fullana in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile and results of Margarita Fullana in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on January 15, 2018 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margarita Fullana on cycling4fans.de
2. ↑ Margarita Fullana: «The greatest stupidity of my life» - Spain has the next doping scandal!