Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru, née Bârcă (born 22 June 1988) is a
Romania
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long-distance runner. She represented her country in the
5000 metres at the
2010 European Athletics Championships
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. She also competed at the
2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, coming tenth in the
3000 metres.
She came third at the
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in 2012 and was part of the silver medal-winning Romanian team alongside
Ancuta Bobocel.
She is previously served a two-year doping ban for the use of a prohibited substance,
Methasterone, at the
2013 Summer Universiade, where she originally won the gold medal in the 5000 metres. The ban lasted from 11 July 2013 to 3 September 2015.
IAAF list of athletes suspended for doping - April 2014
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Achievements
References
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1988 births
Living people
Athletes from Bucharest
Romanian female long-distance runners
Olympic athletes for Romania
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Doping cases in athletics
Romanian sportspeople in doping cases
Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade
Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade
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