Full name Roxana Elisabeta Birca Sport Track and field Name Roxana Barca Height 1.67 m College team Spiru Haret University | Country Romania Event(s) 5000 m Role Athlete Weight 47 kg | |
Born 22 June 1988 (age 36) ( 1988-06-22 ) Bucharest, Romania | ||
Roxana Barca (ROU) after 3000m, European Team Championships Izmir
Roxana Elisabeta Bîrcă (born June 22, 1988 in Bucharest) 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.
She is currently serving 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 lasts from 11 July 2013 to 3 September 2015.
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