AFP - France's former heptathlon and long jump world champion Eunice Barber was fined 5,000 euros (6,300 dollars) Tuesday for resisting arrest and biting a police officer.
  
A court near Paris found the 34-year-old athlete guilty of resisting arrest and of insulting behaviour during a run-in with police in the rough suburb of Saint Denis two years ago.
  
"I am guilty of nothing at all," Barber said after the hearing, calling the verdict "worse than injustice" and saying she planned to appeal.
  
The Sierra Leone-born athlete claims she was slapped on the face by police after she opened her car window to talk to an officer who stopped her car when she turned down a street that was temporarily barred.
  
At her trial last month she said she bit the officer "to protect" her body, her "source of work" and accused the police of "humiliating" her, "perhaps by racism". The officer denies slapping her.
  
Barber was also sentenced to pay the six officers between 350 and 1,050 euros each in damages plus 700 euros in legal costs.
  
The prosecution had been seeking a two-month suspended sentence.
  
The athlete won heptathlon gold at the 1999 world championships and long jump gold in 2003.
  
She competed for Sierra Leone in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and for France in 2000 and 2004 but never won a medal.