Corina Dumbrăvean (born 15 April 1984 in Bistriţa) is a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n former middle

distance runner Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least . Physiologically, it is largely aerobic in nature and requires stamina as well as mental strength. Within endurance running comes two d ...

who specialized in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...

. She finished second at the

2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships The 2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid, the capital city of Spain, from Friday, 4 March to Sunday, 6 March 2005. This was the first edition to be held in an odd year since switching to the b ...

in Madrid and sixth at the

2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 11th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was held in Moscow from March 10 to March 12, 2006 in the Olimpiyski Sport arena. The announcement by the I ...

in Moscow. At the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg she finished sixth in a personal best time of 4:02.24 minutes. She received a two-year doping ban from November 2007 to 2009. She refused to submit to testing in June 2010 and was given a lifeban from the sport of

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

.Dumbravean Corina
. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-30.

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* 1984 births Living people Romanian female middle-distance runners category:Sportspeople from Bistrița Doping cases in athletics Romanian sportspeople in doping cases 21st-century Romanian women {{Romania-athletics-bio-stub

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