Elena Lashmanova

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

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

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 defeated defending champion Olga Kaniskina by 7 seconds in a come-from-behind win.

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

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. She would come off of the doping suspension in time to defend her Olympic gold medal. 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.

In 2021, she received a two-year ban for a doping violation along with a similar penalty for the majority of her compatriot training partners. Her Olympic gold was stripped following an IOC decision in March 2022, with all of her results from February 18, 2012, to January 3, 2014 wiped, following disqualification for doping.

After Lashmanova's medal was officially stripped, Russia's medal total from the 2012 Olympics was reduced to seven medals and two gold medals (following other reallocations for similar reasons).

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