Marielys Rojas
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Marielys Rojas (or Marierlis Rojas, born April 30, 1986) is a
Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
n athlete specializing in the
high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...
. Her personal best in the event is 1.90 meters achieved in 2008 in Ponce. This is the current national record.


Doping

On 27 October 2011, she was tested positive for the abuse of Norandrosterone. As a consequence, she was stripped of her silver medal obtained in the high jump, event at the
Pan American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...
and declared to be ineligible to compete for two years until 21 November 2013. Another source reports here disqualification as early as 16 July 2011 due to IAAF Rule 32.2.a.


Personal bests

*High jump: 1.90 m – Ponce, 29 March 2008 *Triple jump: 12.59 m (wind: +1.6 m/s)
Barquisimeto Barquisimeto (; ) is a city in Venezuela. Barquisimeto is located in the Central-Western Region, Venezuela. It is the capital of the state of Lara (state), Lara and head of Iribarren Municipality. It is an important urban, industrial, commercial a ...
, 26 June 2004


Competition record

: Disqualified because of doping.
: Might be disqualified because of doping (to be verified).


References


External links

* 1986 births Living people Venezuelan female high jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games Doping cases in athletics South American Games gold medalists for Venezuela South American Games silver medalists for Venezuela South American Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 2002 South American Games Competitors at the 2006 South American Games Pan American Games silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Pan American Games silver medalists for Venezuela Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Carabobo 20th-century Venezuelan women 21st-century Venezuelan sportswomen {{Venezuela-athletics-bio-stub