Elmira Shamilevna Alembekova (russian: Эльмира Шамильевна Алембекова; Tatar Latin: ''Elmira Şəmil qızı Əlimbeyova''; born 30 June 1990 in

Saransk Saransk (russian: Саранск, p=sɐˈransk; mdf, Саранск ошсь, Saransk oš; myv, Саран ош, Saran oš) is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, as well as its financial and economic centre. It is located ...

) :ru:Алембекова, Эльмира Шамильевна, Retrieved 3 June 2015 is a Russian race walker. She won the gold medal in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2014 European Championships in Athletics. She continues to be coached by

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 ...

, after he has been suspended for a lengthy series of

performance-enhancing drug Performance-enhancing substances, also known as performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), are substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans. A well-known example of cheating in sports involves doping in sport, where bann ...

suspensions against many of his athletes.

Doping case

In September 2015 IAAF confirmed that Alembekova was provisionally suspended after a sample from an out-of-competition control in Saransk in June had been found positive for a prohibited substance.James Ellingworth
6 Russian race walkers suspended over positive drug tests
Associated Press, bigstory.ap.org, 22 September 2015

Competition record

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* 1990 births Living people Russian female racewalkers Sportspeople from Saransk European Athletics Championships medalists {{Russia-athletics-bio-stub