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Medal record
Marta Domínguez
Women's athletics
Competitor for  Spain
World Championships
Gold	2009 Berlin	3000 m steeplechase
Silver	2001 Edmonton	5000 m
Silver	2003 Paris	5000 m
World Indoor Championships
Silver	2003 Birmingham	3000 m
European Championships
Gold	2002 Munich	5000 m
Gold	2006 Gothemburg	5000 m
Bronze	1998 Budapest	5000 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold	2002 Vienna	3000 m
Silver	2007 Birmingham	3000 m
Bronze	1996 Stockholm	3000 m
Bronze	1998 Valencia	3000 m
Bronze	2000 Ghent	3000 m
European Cross Country Championships
Gold	2007 Toro	Women's race

Marta Domínguez Azpeleta (born 3 November 1975 in Palencia) is a Spanish runner who currently competes mainly in 3000 m steeplechase, a distance in which she is the current World Champion.

In the past she was adept to 5000 metres and 10,000. In 2002 she won these events at the European indoor and outdoor championships, and won her second straight title in 2006 in the 5000 metres at the European outdoor championship (also obtaining the Championship Record). She also has silver medals from the World Championships in 2001 and 2003, and she was named Spanish Athlete of the Year in both years.

A six-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres, Domínguez has competed in two Olympics, in 1996 and 2000. She missed the 2004 Summer Olympics due to injury and returned in 2005 with a 14th place at the World Championships.

In 2006, after winning the gold medal at the European Championship in the 5000 metres, she became the most decorated Spanish athlete ever. She also broke the Spanish record at the 10,000 m at the same event, where she finished 7th. In addition to her track career she has competed in cross country running, winning the Cross de Atapuerca in 2006 and taking the title at the European Cross Country Championships the following year. She ended 2007 with a win at Palencia's most prominent international athletics competition, the Cross Internacional de Venta de Baños.^[1]

During the 2008 season, Domínguez started running the 3000 m steeplechase, breaking the Spanish record in her first race. Contesting the event at the 2008 Olympics, Domínguez was among the leaders with 250 m to go, when she clipped a barrier and fell to the track. She did not finish the race.

Domínguez beat her own 3000 m steeplechase national record by over five seconds at a track meet in Málaga in June 2009. Following her improvements, she downplayed talk of medals at the 2009 World Championships, stating that she was only focusing on improving her technique and that Olympic Champion Gulnara Samitova-Galkina was a strong favourite.^[2] She then went on to win the gold medal in the event.

Personal bests

• 1500 metres - 4:06.08 (2000)
• 3000 metres - 8:28.80 (2000)
• 5000 metres - 14:48.33 (2003)
• 10000 metres - 30:51.69 (2006)
• 3000 m steeplechase - 9:07.32 (2009)

Achievements

Domínguez winning the 2007 European Cross Country Championships

References

External links

• Official Website
• IAAF profile for Marta Domínguez
• Career overview from 2009 (IAAF)
• Valiente, Emeterio (6 January 2007). "After nearly a decade, Domínguez remains a global threat". IAAF. http://www.iaaf.org/news/Kind=2/newsId=37170.html. Retrieved 2007-01-08.  
• Club de Fans