Verónica Colindres

{{short description|Salvadoran racewalker}}

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Verónica Abigail Colindres García (born July 9, 1986, in Opico, La Libertad) is a female Salvadoran race walker.{{cite sports-reference|title = Verónica Colindres|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/veronica-colindres-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418101139/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/veronica-colindres-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 15 January 2013}} She won a silver medal for the 20 km at the 2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup in San Salvador, with a time of 1:39:45.{{cite news|last=Clavelo Robinson|first=Javier|title=Mexico dominates Pan American Race Walking Cup|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/mexico-dominates-pan-american-race-walking-cu|publisher=IAAF|date=3 May 2009|access-date=15 January 2013}}

Colindres represented El Salvador at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's 20 km race walk. She completed the race in thirty-eighth place, six seconds behind Brazil's Tânia Spindler, with a seasonal best time of 1:36:52.{{cite web|title=Women's 20km Walk |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATW092100/standings.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=15 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730233538/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATW092100/standings.html |archive-date=30 July 2012 }} Colindres was elevated to a higher position, when Greek race walker and former Olympic champion Athanasía Tsoumeléka was disqualified from the competition, after testing positive for CERA, an advanced version of the blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO).{{cite news|title=IOC sanctions race walker Tsoumeleka for doping|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2009-11-18-3364566904_x.htm|publisher=USA Today|date=18 November 2009|access-date=15 January 2013}}