Pan Am women’s marathon winner Gladys Tejeda tests positive for doping
Gladys Tejeda, the Peruvian runner who won the women’s marathon at this summer’s Pan Am Games, has been caught for doping and may have to give back her gold medal.
This news was recently reported by Peruvian publication Peru This Week. According to them, the athlete has tested positive which became public in an announcement made by Julio Cesar Maglione, president of the Pan Am Sports Organization.
Tejeda, born and raised in Peru, won the women’s marathon on July 18 running a 2:33:03 marathon in severe heat and humidity to break a Pan Am record and place first in nearly three minutes ahead of the second-place woman. But after this alleged doping incident, officials are deciding whether or not she is going to have to give back her gold medal. That’s a decision to be made within the next ten days or so.
If she does get stripped of her medal, that will bump Canada’s Rachel Hannah into third place. The Canadian runner ran her second ever marathon at the Games to come in fourth place after Adriana Da Silva and American Lindsay Flanagan.