Elena Lashmanova

Elena Anatolyevna Lashmanova (Russian: Елена Анатольевна Лашманова, born 9 April 1992 in Saransk, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker. 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.[1]

Elena Lashmanova
Personal information
Full nameElena Anatolyevna Lashmanova
NationalityRussian
Born (1992-04-09) 9 April 1992
Saransk, Mordovia, Russia
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country Russia
SportTrack and field
Event(s)Racewalking
TeamDynamo Saransk
Medal record
Olympic Games
Disqualified2012 London20 km walk
World Championships
Disqualified2013 Moscow20 km walk
World Race Walking Cup
Disqualified2012 Saransk20 km walk

Lashmanova was the 2012 Olympic Champion in the 20 km walk. 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 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]

Biography

In her Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lashmanova won gold in the women's 20 kilometres walk in world record time. However, her Olympic gold (at time of writing) will be stripped for doping 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 (following many other reallocation for similar reasons).[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 received a two-year ban, retroactive to March 2021, with all of her results from February 18, 2012 to January 3, 2014 disqualified for doping use.[1]

International competitions
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Russia
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 1:27:38
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom DSQ 20 km walk 1:25:02 WR
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia DSQ 20 km walk 1:27:08

See also

References
  1. "Russia to be stripped of sixth 2012 Olympic track and field gold medal". March 21, 2022.
  2. Rodchenkov, Grigory (2020). The Rodchenkov Affair. United Kingdom: Penguin. pp. 167–168. ISBN 9780753553329.
  3. "Elena Lashmanova, Olympic champion in the 20 km walk, suspended two years," La Dernière Heure (June 22, 2014). Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  4. "Disqualification," Russian Athletics (June 21, 2014). Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  5. "IAAF investigating Russian Olympic gold medallist Elena Lashmanova," The Guardian (January 14, 2015). Retrieved March 6, 2015.
  6. Liu breaks 20km race walk world record in La Coruna. IAAF (2015-06-06). Retrieved on 2015-06-06.
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