Gamze Bulut (; born August 3, 1992 in

Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from "old" and "city") is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 898,369 with a metropolitan population of 797,708. The city is located on the banks of the ...

) is a

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. Due to receive the 2012 gold medals as Olympic and European champion following the disqualification of teammate

Aslı Çakır Alptekin Aslı Çakır Alptekin (born 20 August 1985 in Antalya) is a former Turkish female middle-distance runner. A member of the Üsküdar Belediyespor in Istanbul, she is coached by her husband, runner Ihsan Alptekin. She was banned for life for rep ...

from both events, Bulut herself came under investigation for abnormalities in her athlete 'passport', and on 1 June 2016, Turkish media reported that Bulut had also been found to have employed illegal performance enhancing methods by dint of observations of her athlete 'passport'. This was confirmed by the

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and Bulut lost her Olympic and European medals, and all medals and records from the date of the infraction, July 20, 2011 to 2016. She received a four-year ban until May 29, 2020. The tall athlete at was a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics, where she was coached by Süleyman Altınoluk.

Career

At the 2009 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in

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, Finland, she became bronze medalist in the

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event with a time of 6:50.24. She won the gold medal of the 3000 m steeplechase event at the 2009 Balkan Junior Athletics Championships held in

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. Bulut also lost the silver medal in the

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from the

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, when finishing second behind her compatriot

. She took second place and the silver medal in

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at the

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, again finishing behind Alptekin. Bulut had set a personal best time of 4:01:18 in the semi-finals of the competition. Alptekin's results from 2010 onwards were subsequently stripped due to doping offences, making Bulut the ''de facto'' Olympic and European champion. However, in March 2016, it was reported that Bulut too was also under investigation for suspected doping.Ingle, Sean. (6 March 2016)
Turkish silver medal winner from London 2012 investigated for doping
The Guardian. Retrieved on 02 April 2016. In 2013, Bulut won the gold medal in the 5000 meters event at the 9th European Athletics U23 Championships held in Tampere, setting a personal best time with 15:45.03.

Personal best

* 9:34.88 3000m steeplechase NR (U23) - May 19, 2012 Izmir, Turkey * 15:45.03 5000m PB (U23) - July 14, 2013

, Finland

International competitions

References

External links

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