Anca Heltne
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Representing  Romania
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| Women’s athletics | ||
| European Indoor Championships | ||
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2009 Torino | Shot put |
Anca Margareta Heltne, née Vilceanu (born 1 January 1978) is a Romanian shot putter. She has an indoor personal best of 19.90 metres, achieved in February 2010 in Bucharest.
She finished seventh at the 2005 Summer Universiade. She also competed at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without reaching the final round. She then finished eighth at the 2008 World Athletics Final and 2009 World Athletics Final, where the top 8 athletes in the world are invited. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships.[1] and Silver medal at the 2009 European Cup Winter Throwing. She won the shot put gold medal at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie.
She set an outdoor personal best of 19.08 m at the 2009 Moscow Grand Prix
She is married with the Norwegian decathlete Runar Heltne. In 2011 she had her first child and she was back in competition in 2012, where she was a finalist at the European Championship. She was 7th in the European Indoor Championships in Göteborg and 15th in the World Championship in Moscow 2013. She won the shot put gold medal at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie.
Doping
Between 27 February 2010 and 31 March 2012 she was disqualified from competition for the use of a prohibited substance, stanozolol.[2]
In February 2014 at the national indoor championships, she again tested positive for illegal substances and is now facing a lifetime ban.[3]
References
- ^ Anca Heltne at World Athletics
- ^ IAAF suspended athletes list
- ^ "Atleta Anca Heltne riscă suspendarea pe viaţă pentru dopaj!" (in Romanian). www.ziuanews.ro. 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
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