Virginia Berasategui

0 Virginia Berasategui Luna
at Ironman 70.3 Germany in Wiesbaden , 2007
Personal information
Date of birth	15th July 1975 (age 45)
place of birth	Bilbao , Spain
societies
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
status
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

(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

1. ↑ triatleta vasca ( Memento from February 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Virginia Berasategui finished third at this year's Ford Ironman World Championship
3. ↑ And another doping sinner - EPO results for the two-time winner of the triathlon on Lanzarote ( NZZ , July 15, 2005)
4. ↑ BERASATEGUI CONSTITUTES DOPING (June 27, 2013)
5. ↑ Berasategui admits doping (June 27, 2013)
6. ↑ La atleta Virginia Berasategui vuelve a competir "para disfrutar" y ayudar a una causa solidaria (May 4, 2016)
7. ^ Bilbao Triathlon a Virginia Berasategui
8. ↑ Felt's Hunt and Berasatagui's Victory
9. ↑ Plenty of time to celebrate the victory
10. ↑ Results
11. ^ 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.
12. ↑ 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.
13. ↑ Triathlon long distance EM: Home wins for Llanos and Berasategui
14. ↑ 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.
15. ↑ Virginia Berasategui, campeona de Europa de Triathlon
16. ↑ Berasategui arrasa en Gernika ( Memento of May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ 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.