Anisya Byasyrovna Kirdyapkina (russian: Анися Бясыровна Кирдяпкина; née Kornikova russian: Корникова; born October 23, 1989) is a Russian
race walker
Racewalking, or race walking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Referee, Race judges careful ...
. She is married to
Sergey Kirdyapkin
Sergey Alexandrovich Kirdyapkin (russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Кирдя́пкин; born 18 June 1980, in Insar, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker. He was stripped of the 2012 Olympic gold medal in the 50K walk, by d ...
, who is also a racewalker. She was discovered by the race walking coach Konstantin Nacharkin at the age of nine.
She met her future husband through race walking and they were married when she was 18. As of 2014, they shared a coach,
Viktor Chegin
Viktor Mikhailovich Chegin (russian: Виктор Михайлович Чёгин; born 3 February 1962 in Bersenevka, Lyambirsky District) is a banned Russian racewalking coach. He was responsible for training all three athletes who swept the med ...
.
Career
In 2007, she won the Russian Winter Championships, the European Race Walking Cup and the European Junior Championships, all 10 km races.
She race in the 20 km IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final, which was held in her hometown of
Saransk.
She finished second to
Olga Kaniskina.
She received two technique disqualifications in races in 2008.
In 2009, she finished in 4th at the
World Championships which was retrospectively upgraded to bronze due to the disqualification of the original gold medalist, 5 days before her husband won gold.
In 2010, she won the summer and winter Russian titles, setting a new personal best of 1.25.11.
That year, she finished second in a Russian one, two, three at the
European Championships
The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...
.
At the 2011 she won a bronze medal at the
World Championships.
Kirdyapkina's qualification for the
2012 Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...
came down to a battle between her and
Tatyana Sibileva.
Kirdyapkina qualified for the 2012 Olympics by beating Sibileva at the Russian National Championships.
At the 2012 Olympics, she finished in 5th place.
At the
2013 Universiade, held in Kazan, Russia, Kirdyapkina lead a Russian one, two, three with a championship record of 1:29:30.
She finished in second in the
2013 World Championships in Moscow beaten by Russian teammate
Elena Lashmanova.
In February 2019, Kirdyapkina was banned for three years for doping and all her results from 25 February 2011 to 11 October were disqualified including her 2 Universiade gold medals, 2 World Championship silver medals and her 2012 Olympics 5th place.
International competitions
References
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1989 births
Living people
People from Saransk
Sportspeople from Mordovia
Russian female racewalkers
Olympic female racewalkers
Olympic athletes of Russia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Universiade gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
European Athletics Championships medalists
Russian Athletics Championships winners