Elena Lashmanova

 ( 1992 Births ) 

Elena Anatolyevna Lashmanova (, born 9 April 1992 in Saransk, Mordovia) is a Russian former race walking.

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Early career Lashmanova was World Youth, World Junior and European Junior champion in race walking.

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Career Lashmanova won the 20 km walk at the 2012 World Racing Walking Cup in Saransk with a time of 1:27:38.

Later that year in her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lashmanova won gold in the women's 20 km walk in a world record time of 1:25:02. She beat defending champion Olga Kaniskina in a come from behind win by 7 seconds.

In 2013, she won the 20 km walk at the World Championships in Moscow.

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Doping On 22 June 2014, it was announced that Lashmanova had tested positive for doping with Endurobol, along with a large number of other Russian race-walkers, and would receive a two-year suspension." Elena Lashmanova, Olympic champion in the 20 km walk, suspended two years ," La Dernière Heure (June 22, 2014). Retrieved March 6, 2015. She would come off of the doping suspension in time to defend her Olympic gold medal." Disqualification," Russian Athletics (June 21, 2014). Retrieved March 6, 2015. She joined over a dozen other elite Russian race walkers all coached by Viktor Chegin to receive doping suspensions.

She is alleged to have competed on 30 December 2014 despite the drug suspension. If proven her ban could be extended for a further two years." IAAF investigating Russian Olympic gold medallist Elena Lashmanova," The Guardian (January 14, 2015). Retrieved March 6, 2015.

In 2021, she received a two-year ban for a doping violation along with a similar penalty for the majority of her training partners shortly thereafter. Her Olympic gold (at time of writing) will be stripped following an IOC decision in March 2022. It is claimed by Russian whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov that her positive sample (found with the doping compound GW1516) was in fact one from her 2012 Olympics mistakenly substituted for a further positive test result by the state run-doping programme. He claims that she had at least 2 positive findings that went unreported and that this one was reported only because it was witnessed by non-Russian experts.

In March 2022, she received a two-year ban, retroactive to March 2021, with all of her results disqualified from February 18, 2012, to January 3, 2014, disqualified for doping use.

However, her Olympic gold was stripped for doping following an IOC decision in March 2022. She was also stripped of her 2013 world title. Russia originally was thought to have won 18 medals and eight gold medals in track and field at the 2012 Olympics. After Lashmanova's medal was officially stripped, however, Russia's total was reduced to seven medals and two gold medals (following many other reallocations for similar reasons).

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International competitions

2009	World Youth Championships	Brixen, Italy	1st	5000 m track walk	22:55.45
2010	World Junior Championships	Moncton, Canada	1st	10000 m track walk
2011	European Race Walking Cup	Olhão, Portugal	1st	10 km (U20)
			1st	Team - 10 km Junior	3 pts
	European Junior Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	1st	10000 m track walk	42:59.48
2012	World Race Walking Cup	Saransk, Russia	DSQ	20 km walk
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	DSQ	20 km walk
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	DSQ	20 km walk

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See also

• List of doping cases in athletics

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External links

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