Virginia Berasategui
Virginia Berasategui Luna | |
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at Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden , 2007
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | 15th July 1975 (age 45) |
place of birth | Bilbao , Spain |
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successes | |
1997, 2002, 2010 | 3 × 3rd place world championship triathlon long distance |
2003 | ITU world champion triathlon long distance |
2004, 2005 | 2 × Ironman winner |
2009 | 3rd place Ironman Hawaii |
2009, 2010 | 2 × ETU European champion long distance triathlon |
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inactive |
Virginia Berasategui Luna (born July 15, 1975 in Bilbao ) is a former Basque triathlete . She is world champion in the long distance (2003), European champion (2009, 2010) and Ironman winner (2004, 2005). Berasategui is ranked second in the best list of Spanish triathletes on the Ironman distance .
Career
Her father Javier Berasategui was also a triathlete and he was the first Spanish athlete to compete in the Ironman Hawaii . Virginia Berasategui celebrated her first triumphs in 1986 in swimming and athletics. In 1988 she started her first triathlon.
World champion triathlon long distance 2003
Virginia Berasategui was third at the ITU World Championships in 1997 and again in 2002 and then world champion in the long distance triathlon in 2003 (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling and 30 km running).
In 2005 she tested positive for EPO after the Ironman Lanzarote - the results were later canceled.
In 2009 she became European champion over the long distance triathlon in Prague and in November at Ironman Hawaii she reached third place and thus the first medal for a Spanish athlete. In August 2010 she was third at the ITU Long Distance World Championships in Immenstadt im Allgäu.
2013 doping ban
In May 2013, Virginia Berasategui was convicted of doping at the Bilbao Triathlon . In June, she announced that she had taken illicit substances, would forego a B-sample and end her triathlon career.
In May 2016 after her suspension expired, she announced that she wanted to start again as an amateur. In June she finished third in the middle distance on her return in the Bilbao Triathlon . It has not appeared internationally since 2016.
Virginia Berasategui lives in her native city of Bilbao on the north coast of Spain.
Sporting successes
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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2nd June 2016 | 3 | Bilbao triathlon | Bilbao | 04:43:53 | behind Åsa Lundström and Judith Corachán |
May 2013 | DSQ | Bilbao triathlon | Bilbao | - | Berasategui has tested positive for unauthorized means to increase performance. |
May 28, 2011 | 1 | Bilbao triathlon | Bilbao | 04:29:40 | |
5th Sep 2010 | 1 | Cologne 226 Half | Cologne | 04:16:06 | Winner of the Cologne Classic (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling and 21 km running) ahead of the German Silvia Balbach |
May 1, 2010 | 3 | Wildflower triathlon | Lake San Antonio | 04:39:46 | on the Olympic distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling, 10 km running) behind the winner Julie Dibens |
June 14, 2009 | 1 | Bonn triathlon | Bonn | 03:15:37 | Over the middle distance (3.8 km swimming, 60 km cycling, 15 km running). |
May 24, 2009 | 1 | Half Challenge Barcelona | Barcelona | 04:22:34 | The disqualification pronounced immediately after the race was later revoked. |
May 2, 2009 | 1 | Wildflower triathlon | Lake San Antonio | 04:35:00 | Virginia Berasategui achieved first place in California over the middle distance (1.9 km swimming, 90 km cycling, 21.1 km running) |
Sep 7 2008 | 3 | Ironman 70.3 Monaco | Monaco | 04:44:45 | |
Aug 10, 2008 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Germany | Wiesbaden | 04: 43: 38.2 | First place - ahead of the German Andrea Brede |
Aug 19, 2007 | 1 | Ironman 70.3 Germany | Wiesbaden | 04:44:29 | |
Aug 15, 1997 | 4th | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Embrun | 02:23:21 | behind the winner Mieke Suys from Belgium |
1997 | 2 | ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championships | Vuokatti | 02:13:48 | Second at the European Championship of the ETU on the short distance |
May 19, 1996 | 26th | ITU Triathlon World Cup | Gamagori | 02:04:35 | |
Nov 12, 1995 | 13 | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championship Junior Women | Cancun | 02:17:14 | |
Nov. 27, 1994 | 5 | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championship Junior Women | Wellington | ||
2nd July 1994 | 20th | ETU Short Distance Triathlon European Championships | Eichstatt | 02:13:38 | European championship on the short distance |
Sep 12 1992 | 46 | ITU Short Distance Triathlon World Championships | Huntsville | 02:18:10 | |
1992 | 3 | ESP Triathlon National Championships |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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July 29, 2012 | 4th | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Vitoria-Gasteiz | 06:20:36 | at the world championship on the long distance triathlon |
Apr 22, 2012 | 6th | Ironman South Africa | Port Elizabeth | 10:13:00 | |
Oct 8, 2011 | 10 | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:19:52 | |
July 24, 2011 | 10 | Ironman Germany | Frankfurt | 09:37:00 | |
Oct 9, 2010 | 4th | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:16:47 | |
Aug 1, 2010 | 3 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Immenstadt | at the long distance World Championships (4 km swimming, 130 km cycling and 30 km running) | |
June 26, 2010 | 1 | ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships | Vitoria-Gasteiz | 06:14:46 | Victory and European champion in the long distance (4 km swimming, 120 km cycling, 30 km running) |
13 Mar 2010 | 3 | Abu Dhabi International Triathlon | Abu Dhabi | 07:18:23 | (3 km swimming, 200 km cycling and 20 km running) |
Oct 10, 2009 | 3 | Ironman Hawaii | Big Island | 09:15:28 | |
Aug 8, 2009 | 1 | ETU Long Distance Triathlon European Championships | Prague | Victory and European champion in the long distance | |
2008 | 6th | Ironman Hawaii | Hawaii | 09:29:15 | |
May 24, 2008 | 5 | Ironman Lanzarote | Puerto del Carmen | 10:22:33 | |
May 21, 2005 | 1 | Ironman Lanzarote | Puerto del Carmen | ||
May 22, 2004 | 1 | Ironman Lanzarote | Puerto del Carmen | 09:41:51 | |
May 11, 2003 | 1 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Ibiza | 06:19:20 | Triathlon world champion over the long distance |
22 Sep 2002 | 3 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Nice | 07:14:17 | as part of the Triathlon International de Nice |
June 9, 1997 | 3 | ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships | Nice | 06:25:51 |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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Apr 9, 2011 | 1 | Duatlón Internacional de Gernika | Gernika | 01:13:41 | |
Nov 5, 2000 | 2 | Powerman Gran Canaria | Gran Canaria | 02:56:49 |
Date / year | rank | competition | venue | time | comment |
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2000 | 7th | ITU Aquathlon World Championships | Cancun | 00:35:38 | Aquathlon World Championship (2.5 km run, 1 km swim and 2.5 km run) |
(DNF - Did Not Finish )
Web links
- Virginia Berasategui website ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
- Profile for Virginia Berasategui at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science , accessed May 13, 2014
- Virginia Berasategui profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 4, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ triatleta vasca ( Memento from February 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Virginia Berasategui finished third at this year's Ford Ironman World Championship
- ↑ And another doping sinner - EPO results for the two-time winner of the triathlon on Lanzarote ( NZZ , July 15, 2005)
- ↑ BERASATEGUI CONSTITUTES DOPING (June 27, 2013)
- ↑ Berasategui admits doping (June 27, 2013)
- ↑ La atleta Virginia Berasategui vuelve a competir "para disfrutar" y ayudar a una causa solidaria (May 4, 2016)
- ^ Bilbao Triathlon a Virginia Berasategui
- ↑ Felt's Hunt and Berasatagui's Victory
- ↑ Plenty of time to celebrate the victory
- ↑ Results
- ^ Kai Baumgartner: Half Challenge Barcelona, disqualification of the Spaniard Virginia Berasategui Luna canceled. . In: 3athlon.de . October 25, 2009. Archived from the original on November 1, 2009.
- ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Nicola Spirig confidently wins the title at the Monaco Ironman 70.3 . In: 3athlon.de . September 7, 2008. Archived from the original on September 11, 2008.
- ↑ Triathlon long distance EM: Home wins for Llanos and Berasategui
- ↑ Kai Baumgartner: Abu Dhabi International Triathlon: rendezvous of the Ironman stars in the land of the sheikhs . In: 3athlon.de . March 10, 2010. Archived from the original on March 13, 2010.
- ↑ Virginia Berasategui, campeona de Europa de Triathlon
- ↑ Berasategui arrasa en Gernika ( Memento of May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Aquathlon worlds hit beaches of the Yucatan ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Berasategui, Virginia |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berasategui Luna, Virginia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish triathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 15th July 1975 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bilbao |