Marta Domínguez

Marta Domínguez

Personal information
Full name	Marta Domínguez Azpeleta
Nationality	Spanish
Born	(1975-11-03) November 3, 1975 (age 41) Palencia, Spain
Height	1.63 m (5.3 ft)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Website	www.martadominguez.es
Sport
Country	Spain
Sport	Athletics
Medal record World Championships 2001 Edmonton 5000 m 2003 Paris 5000 m Disqualified 2009 Berlin 3000 m st. World Indoor Championships 2003 Birmingham 3000 m European Championships 2002 Munich 5000 m 2006 Gothenburg 5000 m 1998 Budapest 5000 m Disqualified 2010 Barcelona 3000 m st. European Cross Country Championships 2007 Toro Senior race

Marta Domínguez
Designated Spanish Senator for Palencia
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 December 2011

Marta Domínguez Azpeleta (born 3 November 1975) is a Spanish runner and politician. She competes mainly in the steeplechase. She has represented Spain four times at the Olympics and has competed at the World Championships on six occasions.

As a 5000m runner, Domínguez won a bronze at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and reached the global podium at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, winning the silver medal. She scored a gold medal double in 2002 by taking a 3000 metres win at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, before going on to become European champion at the 2002 European Championships. She achieved silver medals in the same events at the IAAF World Indoor Championships and 2003 World Championships in Athletics the following year. She retained her European crown at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.

Domínguez has been accused of both dealing and using performance-enhancing drugs on multiple occasions. In December 2010, she was arrested for her connection in a doping ring as part of Operación Galgo; she was acquitted in 2011. In May 2013, it was reported that Domínguez had failed a bio-passport test in 2009. In 2015, she was banned from competing for three years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for irregularities in her biological passport and stripped of her status as a Spanish national athlete. This annulled all of Domínguez's competitive results from August 2009 to July 2013, including her 2009 world championship in steeplechase. Her personal best in the steeplechase is now listed by the IAAF as 9:09.39 from the last race she ran six days before the official doping ban period went into place.

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