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| Full name | Claudia Mihaela Bobocea | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-06-11) 11 June 1992 Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Ovidius University | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 1500 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSA Steaua București | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Claudia Mihaela Bobocea (born 11 June 1992)[1] is a Romanian middle-distance runner competing primarily in the 1500 metres. She won the silver medal in the event at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
Bobocea represented Romania at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[1] She won multiple national titles both outdoors and indoors (mostly over 800 metres).
In 2025, Bobocea was issued with a two-year ban set to expire in August 2027 for an anti-doping rule violation for whereabouts failures.[2] It was reported in Romanian news that all of her results had been disqualifed backdated to August 2023 (the original date of the infraction).[3]
Statistics
Competition record
Personal bests
- 800 metres – 2:01.37 (Ostrava 2020)
- 800 metres indoor – 2:04.58 (Bucharest 2016)
- 1000 metres – 2:42.92 (Bucharest 2015)
- 1000 metres indoor – 2:35.35 (Birmingham 2023) NR
- 1500 metres – 4:01.10 (Ostrava 2022)
- 1500 metres indoor – 4:03.76 (Istanbul 2023)
- 3000 metres – 8:55.34 (Osaka 2018)
- 3000 metres indoor – 8:47.59 (Madrid 2019)
National titles
- Romanian Athletics Championships
- 800 metres: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
- 1500 metres: 2018
- 4 × 400 m relay: 2017
- Romanian Indoor Athletics Championships
- 800 metres: 2016, 2018, 2020
- 1500 metres: 2015
- 3000 metres: 2015
References
- ^ a b "Claudia Mihaela BOBOCEA – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Latest Sanctions for Doping and Non-Doping Violations - October 2025" (PDF). Athletics Integrity Unit.
- ^ "Anunţ Athletics Integrity Unit, Bobocea suspendată 2 ani cu rezultate anulate retroactiv" [Athletics Integrity Unit announcement, Bobocea suspended for 2 years with results retroactively canceled]. SportTIM.ro (in Romanian). 7 November 2025.
External links
- Claudia Bobocea at World Athletics
- Claudia Bobocea at Diamond League
- Claudia Bobocea at Olympics.com
- Claudia Bobocea at the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in Romanian)
- Claudia Bobocea at Olympedia
