| Roxana Rotaru | |
| Birth Name: | Roxana Bârcă |
| Fullname: | Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru |
| Birth Date: | 22 June 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Bucharest, Romania |
| Height: | 1.67 m |
| Weight: | 46 kg (2013) |
| Sport: | Track and field |
| Event: | 5000 m |
| Collegeteam: | Spiru Haret University |
Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru, née Bârcă (born 22 June 1988) is a Romanian long-distance runner. She represented her country in the 5000 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. She also competed at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, coming tenth in the 3000 metres.
She came third at the World University Cross Country Championships in 2012 and was part of the silver medal-winning Romanian team alongside Ancuta Bobocel.[1]
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.[2]
| Representing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | European Junior Championships | Hengelo, Netherlands | 4th | 5000 m | 16:46.55 |
| 2009 | European U23 Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 12th | 5000 m | 17:03.84 |
| 2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 15th | 5000 m | 16:06.10 |
| 2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 9th | 3000 m | 9:09.19 |
| Universiade | Shenzhen, China | 8th | 5000 m | 16:11.94 | |
| 2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 5th | 5000 m | 15:16.54 (PB) |
| Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 34th (h) | 5000 m | 16:01.04 | |
| 2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 9th | 3000 m | 9:10.51 |
| Universiade | Kazan, Russia | – | 5000 m | DQ | |