Marta Domínguez

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Marta Dominguez athletics

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Marta Dominguez at the 2007 European Cross Country Championship

nation SpainSpain Spain
birthday 3rd November 1975 (age 44)
place of birth Palencia
size 163 cm
Weight 52 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running , obstacle course
Trainer César Pérez
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 3 × gold 1 × silver 4 × bronze
World championships
silver Edmonton 2001 5000 m
silver Birmingham 2003 3000 m
silver Saint-Denis 2003 5000 m
European championships
gold Vienna 2002 3000 m
gold Munich 2002 5000 m
gold Gothenburg 2006 5000 m
silver Birmingham 2007 3000 m
bronze Stockholm 1996 3000 m
bronze Valencia 1998 3000 m
bronze Budapest 1998 5000 m
bronze Ghent 2000 3000 m
last change: May 4, 2020

Marta Domínguez ( Marta Domínguez Azpeleta ; born November 3, 1975 in Palencia ) is a former Spanish long-distance and obstacle runner .

Career

In 1993 she became the European Junior Champion over 1500 meters . She celebrated her first successes in the adult area in the 3000 meter hall : at the World Championships, where she was sixth in Barcelona in 1995 and fifth in Paris in 1997 , and at the European Championships, where she won the bronze medal in Stockholm in 1996 and in Valencia in 1998 . Outdoors she competed at the World Championships in Gothenburg in 1995 over 1500 meters and reached the semi-finals.

With another bronze medal at the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 over 5000 meters , she established herself at the top of Europe. Over the same distance, she was ninth at the World Championships in Seville the following year . In 2000 she won the bronze medal over 3000 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Ghent , but failed in the run-up to the Olympic Games in Sydney over 5000 meters after she had caught a cold shortly before.

In 2001 she was first fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon and then won at the World Championships in Edmonton over 5000 meters silver behind the Russian Olga Jegorowa . In 2002 she won the title both at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna over 3000 meters and at the European Championships in Munich over 5000 meters. In 2003 silver medals followed at the indoor world championships in Birmingham over 3000 meters and at the world championships in Paris / Saint-Denis over 5000 meters.

In 2004 she started with a fourth place over 3000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest , but then had to sit out injured at the Olympic Games in Athens . At the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki she only came 14th over 5000 meters, but then showed herself in top form at the European Championships in Gothenburg the following year , when she defended her title over 5000 meters and finished seventh over 10,000 meters with a Spanish record . In 2007 she won the silver medal at the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham .

Domínguez (center) at the 2010 European Championships
Marta Domínguez statue in her hometown of Palencia

Since the 2008 season she has concentrated on the obstacle course. At the Olympic Games in Beijing , she asserted herself in the top group, but fell over an obstacle 250 meters from the finish and dropped out of the race.

Her successes in road races include victories at the San Silvestre Vallecana in 2002 and 2003 and victory at the Cursa Bombers in 2003.

Overall, she was six times in a row Spanish champion over 5000 meters (1998-2003) and nine times in the hall over 3000 meters (1995-1998, 2000-2004). She also won national titles in 1500 meters (1996) and 10,000 meters (2006) as well as in cross country (2006).

Marta Domínguez is 1.63 m tall, had a competition weight of 52 kg and started for the sporting goods company Nike . In the spring of 2009 she separated from her long-time coach Mariano Díez and was subsequently looked after by César Pérez . Her hallmark at competitions was a pink headband that a relative had given her when she was a child.

Suspected doping in 2010

On December 9, 2010, she was arrested along with her trainer Pérez, her manager José Alonso and eleven other people as part of the Operación Galgo on suspicion of trafficking in doping substances . Domínguez was released because of her pregnancy after an eight-hour interrogation subject to conditions and was temporarily relieved from her post as Vice-President of the Spanish Athletics Federation RFEA. In April 2011 she was exonerated from suspicion of involvement in the doping scandal. The public prosecutor largely stopped the investigation against them. Investigations continued against her in two further proceedings. It was about whether she used her bank accounts in Andorra and Monaco for tax evasion and whether she had procured prescription drugs for a training colleague. However, these points were considered less serious. In July 2011, proceedings were opened against her. She was accused of administering a drug to an unlicensed athlete friend. This procedure was later discontinued. In spring 2013, the IAAF asked the Spanish association to initiate proceedings against Domínguez because her blood tests indicated doping. After the Spanish federation initially refused to take a decision, it acquitted the athlete in March 2014, against which the world federation appealed to the International Court of Sports . In November 2015, the international sports court sentenced Domínguez to a three-year ban for doping. In addition, all titles that she had won between August 5, 2009 and January 4, 2013 were stripped of her. This affected, among other things, the world title over 3000 meters obstacle from 2009 and the vice European title from 2010.

Political activity

In the Spanish parliamentary elections 2011 , Marta Domínguez won a seat for Palencia and the Partido Popular (PP). After her doping ban, she was removed from the list of candidates by the PP shortly before the 2015 election.

Awards

Personal best

  • 1500 m: 4: 04.84 min, July 4th 2009, Madrid
    • Hall: 4: 07.69 min, February 9, 2002, Seville
  • 2000 m (Halle): 5: 49.55 min, March 8, 1998, Sindelfingen
  • 3000 m: 8: 28.80 min, August 11, 2000, Zurich (Spanish record)
    • Hall: 8: 40.98 min, March 10, 2001, Lisbon
  • 5000 m: 14: 48.33 min, August 26, 2003, Paris
  • 10,000 m: 30: 51.69 min, August 7, 2006, Gothenburg (Spanish record)
  • Half marathon : 1:10:54 h, February 1, 2009, Granollers

Web links

Commons : Marta Domínguez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel Online : Doping investigations in Spain: "They destroy their own myth" . December 10, 2010
  2. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau : Doping in Spain: wake up call in another country . December 10, 2010
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Doping in Spain - "Gold in doping" . December 10, 2010
  4. ↑ Domínguez exonerated from doping allegation. In: Spiegel Online from April 20, 2011
  5. ↑ Doping proceedings against world champion Dominguez. In: Focus of July 11, 2011
  6. ^ Siesta against doping. In: Tagesspiegel from August 3, 2011
  7. ^ Doping confusion around Dominguez sport1.de October 9, 2013
  8. ↑ faz.net October 9, 2013
  9. ^ Acquittal for Marta Dominguez tagesspiegel.de April 16, 2014
  10. ↑ Doping: Runner Dominguez loses her world title , spiegel.de from November 20, 2015. Accessed November 20, 2015.
  11. ↑ ABC online: Domínguez: "Hay que funcionar cuanto antes" , November 21, 2011
  12. ↑ Doping: CAS recognizes Domínguez World Championship title from 2009 from swp.de November 19, 2015 ( Memento from November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Jessica Ennis is Europe's Athlete of the Year (October 4, 2012)
personal data
SURNAME Domínguez, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Domínguez Azpeleta, Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish long distance and obstacle runner
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Palencia