Rodica Mateescu (born Rodica Petrescu on March 13, 1971 in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

) is a former

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er from

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. Having set a personal best of 15.16 in 1997, she placed fourth at the

1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships The 6th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France from March 7 to March 9, 1997. It was the first athletic championships to introduce women's pole vault. There were a total numb ...

and won a silver medal at the 1997 World Championships. The same year she placed third at the Grand Prix Final in

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. She has bee
banned for life from the Olympics by the Romanian Olympic Committee (COR)
after she tested positive for nandrolone in May 2000 during a training session in the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta.

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* 1971 births Living people Athletes from Bucharest Romanian female triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Romania World Athletics Championships medalists {{Romania-athletics-bio-stub