Elena Anatolyevna Lashmanova (Russian: Елена Анатольевна Лашманова, born 9 April 1992 in Saransk, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker. In March 2022 she accepted a two-year ban, retroactive to March 2021, and all of her results being disqualified from February 18, 2012, to January 3, 2014, for the use of prohibited substances.[1]
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Full name | Elena Anatolyevna Lashmanova | |||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Russian | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1992-04-09) 9 April 1992 (age 30) Saransk, Mordovia, Russia | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Racewalking | |||||||||||||||||||
Team | Dynamo Saransk | |||||||||||||||||||
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She was the 2012 Olympic Champion in the 20 km walk. 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 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.[2]
In her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lashmanova initially won gold in the women's 20 kilometres walk in world record time. However, her Olympic gold (at time of writing) will be stripped following an IOC decision in March 2022.[2] She will also be stripped of her 2013 world title.[1] Russia originally was thought to have won 18 medals and eight gold medals in track and field at the 2012 Olympics.[1] After Lashmanova’s medal is officially stripped, however, Russia's totals will be reduced to seven medals and two gold medals.[1]
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.[3] She would come off of the doping suspension in time to defend her Olympic gold medal.[4] 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.[5]
Her world record was beaten in 2015 by China's Liu Hong.[6]
In March 2022 she accepted a two-year ban, retroactive to March 2021, and all of her results being disqualified from February 18, 2012, to January 3, 2014, for the use of prohibited substances.[1]
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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 | 44:11.90 |
2011 | European Race Walking Cup | Olhão, Portugal | 1st | 10 km (U20) | 43:10 |
1st | Team - 10 km Junior | 3 pts | |||
European Junior Championships | Tallinn, Estonia | 1st | 10000 m track walk | 42:59.48 WJR | |
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 |
World Athletics Championships champions in women's racewalking | |
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1987–1997 10 kilometres |
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1999–present 20 kilometres |
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2017–2019 50 kilometres |
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2022-present 35 kilometres |
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World Youth Champions in women's 5000 metres race walk | |
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IAAF Women's World Race Walking Cup Champions | |
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World U20 Champions in women's racewalking | |
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Russian Athletics Championships women's racewalking champions | |
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World Best Year Performance in women's race walking | |
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