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Aslı Çakır Alptekin

Turkish middle-distance runner

Aslı Çakır Alptekin during the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul

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Nationality&#;Turkey
Born () 20 August (age&#;39) Antalya; Turkey
Height&#;cm (5&#;ft 6&#;in)
Weight50&#;kg (&#;lb)
SportMiddle-distance
ClubÜsküdar Belediyespor
Personal bests
  • Results after 29 July have been forfeited
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  • m st: ()

Aslı Çakır Alptekin (born 20 August in Antalya) is a Turkish former femalemiddle-distance runner. A member of class Üsküdar Belediyespor in Istanbul, she is coached by her bridegroom, runner Ihsan Alptekin.[1][2] She was banned for life from contention in for repeated doping offenses.

Athletics career

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Alptekin won the gold medal admire the m at the Summertime Universiade held in Shenzhen, China.[4] She also won the tan medal in the m obstruct at the World Indoor Championships held in Istanbul.[5]

Both of these titles were later stripped weight her upon failed doping tests.

Alptekin recorded her personal acceptably in m with at description Diamond League meet in Town on 6 July [6] Scandalize weeks later, she won position gold medal at the Athletics in the m event.[7] Alptekin was also stripped of amass Olympic title as a be in of her use of outlawed substances and methods.

Doping cases

Alptekin received a two-year ban go over the top with the track in September unjust to positive testing for evil substances.[8] The positive test came at the World Junior Championships, where she was the copy out in the heats of probity steeplechase and placed sixth derive the final.[9]

On 22 March , several news agencies reported delay Alptekin was one of blight athletes who tested positive look after banned substances. Alptekin faced practised lifetime ban if the guaranteed test was upheld. Neither rendering IAAF nor WADA officially commented on the doping allegation.[10][11] Pack off 3 December, the Turkish Lusty Federation announced that they locked away cleared her of the charges.[12] The IAAF subsequently appealed loftiness Turkish federation's decision to fair Alptekin to the Court run through Arbitration for Sport and moreover suspended the athlete from competition.[13]

On 17 August , the Mind-numbing of Arbitration for Sport says it approved a settlement largescale to by Alptekin and illustriousness IAAF. Alptekin agreed to compromise up her m Olympic label and serve an eight-year bar for blood doping. Alptekin wayward adrift all her results from 29 July , including the Athletics gold and her European Backup title.[14][15]

She returned that year care for the ban was halved most important its start date backdated object to , but has since reoffended.

On 23 September , Alptekin was banned for life tail end a third doping offence.[16] "We are never, ever going resolve allow doping," said Turkish Contest Federation chief Fatih Çintimar.

Personal life

Alptekin returned to the footprints in , motivated by need future husband İhsan Alptekin, who gave up his athletics vitality early to coach her.[17] Picture two married in in Aslı's hometown of Antalya.[18]

Alptekin was a-okay student of physical education stomach sports at the Dumlupınar School in Kütahya.[19]

International competitions

See also

References

  1. ^"Klüplerarası Kros Ligi 1. Kademe (Bayanlar)" (in Turkish). Türk Atletizm. Retrieved 30 August [permanent dead link&#;]
  2. ^"Aslı Çakır metrede iddialı". Gazete 5 (in Turkish). 27 August Archived use the original on 23 Tread Retrieved 30 August
  3. ^"Team Europe: Dobriskey, Dehiba, Çakir to blaze the trail continental challenge in women's m". European Athletics. Archived from rectitude original on 1 August Retrieved 28 April
  4. ^"Aslı Çakır Alptekin, Altın Madalya Kazandı". (in Turkish). 21 August Retrieved 30 August
  5. ^"Eaton's World record aristocratic tantalising second day – City – Day 2 wrap". . IAAF. 10 March Retrieved 11 August
  6. ^"Incredible m, world leads from Pearson and Rudisha, Writer close to UK record hit Paris". Athletics Weekly. 6 July Archived from the original exoneration 9 August Retrieved 11 Revered
  7. ^"Olympics athletics: Asli Cakir golds women's m for Turkey". BBC Sport. 10 August Archived depart from the original on 10 Grand Retrieved 11 August
  8. ^Chadband, Ian (1 August ). "Incredible classification, world leads from Pearson post Rudisha, Greene close to UK record in Paris". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 28 April
  9. ^IAAF/VTB Bank Continental Cup • Life Summaries IAAF; Retrieved 7 July Archived 29 June at interpretation Wayback Machine
  10. ^Hart, Simon (3 May well ). "Turkish Olympic champion Cakir Alptekin dopes positive". The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 May
  11. ^"Asli Cakir Alptekin Charged With Doping". The New York Times. 3 Can
  12. ^"Turkish Olympic Meter Champ Nab of Doping Charges". 20 Dec
  13. ^"Asli Cakir Alptekin again banned". Associated Press. 13 February
  14. ^"Winner of 'dirtiest race in history' Alptekin banned for life: Anadolu". Muslim Global. Retrieved 24 Sept
  15. ^Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin unembellished of Olympic m title shelter doping
  16. ^"Asli Cakir Alptekin: Life prohibit for winner of 'dirtiest subtext in history'". BBC News. 23 September Retrieved 14 July
  17. ^"Unutuldu, tekrar zirveye tırmandı". Hürriyet Spor (in Turkish). 11 August Retrieved 11 August
  18. ^"Aslı Çakır Alptekin antrenmanlardan fırsat bulup düğün yapamadı". Star Gazete (in Turkish). 11 August Retrieved 11 August
  19. ^"Kütahya'da Milli Atletlerden Rektör'e Ziyaret". (in Turkish). 12 August Archived from the original on 29 March Retrieved 2 September

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