Verónica Colindres

Verónica Colindres
Personal information
Full nameVerónica Abigail Colindres García
Nationality El Salvador
Born (1986-07-09) 9 July 1986 (age 38)
Opico, La Libertad, El Salvador
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventRace walking
Achievements and titles
Personal best20 km walk: 1:35:39 (2007)

Verónica Abigail Colindres García (born July 9, 1986, in Opico, La Libertad) is a female Salvadoran race walker.[1] She won a silver medal for the 20 km at the 2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup in San Salvador, with a time of 1:39:45.[2]

Colindres represented El Salvador at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 20 km race walk. She completed the race in thirty-eighth place, six seconds behind Brazil's Tânia Spindler, with a seasonal best time of 1:36:52.[3] Colindres was elevated to a higher position, when Greek race walker and former Olympic champion Athanasía Tsoumeléka was disqualified from the competition, after testing positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO).[4]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Verónica Colindres". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ^ Clavelo Robinson, Javier (3 May 2009). "Mexico dominates Pan American Race Walking Cup". IAAF. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Women's 20km Walk". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  4. ^ "IOC sanctions race walker Tsoumeleka for doping". USA Today. 18 November 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2013.


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