Adriënne Herzog, Date of Birth

    

Adriënne Herzog

Dutch female long-distance runner

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1985

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

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About Adriënne Herzog

  • Adriënne Herzog (born 30 September 1985, Amersfoort) is a Dutch middle- and long-distance runner.
  • She has had most of her success in cross country running, being twice a bronze medallist at the European Cross Country Championships (2009 and 2012).
  • She represented the Netherlands on the track at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and 2009 World Championships in Athletics, but failed to make the final on either occasion.
  • She was a finalist, however, at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships. She is a seven-time Dutch national champion in cross country.
  • She also won a bronze medal at the 2003 European Athletics Junior Championships.
  • On the circuit, she won the 2009 Lotto Cross Cup Brussels.Herzog was implicated in doping practices as part of investigations connected with Operación Galgo.
  • Her coach at the time, Manuel Pascua Piqueras, was a central figure in the scandal.
  • After being interrogated by the police, she was ultimately not charged of an offence after the evidence against her was destroyed.
  • In 2013, Dutch magazine Vrij Nederland published a series of email excerpts which it claimed demonstrated Herzog obtaining performance-enhancing drugs during 2011 and 2012.
  • Following this, her new coach Brad Hudson decided to cease working with Herzog, despite her claims that the magazine's assertions were untrue and no formal proceedings were brought against her.
  • Herzog received a two-year doping ban after she gave a positive test in March 2014.
  • She claimed that the positive test was a mistake and that she had never used banned substances.

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