Amaia Piedra Explained

Amaia Piedra (born 2 June 1972 in Bilbao) is a retired Spanish athlete who specialized in long-distance running.

She finished ninth over 3000 metres at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in an indoor personal best time of 8:59.76 minutes.

Piedra was suspended by the IAAF from June 2005 to June 2007 for an anti-doping rule violation.[1] She'd tested positive for EPO.[2]

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060303014025/http://www.iaaf.org/newsfiles/33630.pdf IAAF Newsletter #78, February 28, 2006
  2. Web site: Athletes Sanctioned for a Doping Offence Committed 2003-2008 . IAAF . 9 February 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081115144218/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/Antidoping/SanctionedAthletes/04/80/92/20081114093728_httppostedfile_2003-2008positives_7230.xls . November 15, 2008 .