Vladimir Alekseevich Kanaykin (russian: Владимир Алексеевич Канайкин; born 21 March 1985) is a Russian race walker.

Career

He won the 2002 World Junior Championships in the 10 km race, took the silver medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships and finished ninth in the 50 km race at the 2006 European Championships. He competed at the 2005 World Championships, but was disqualified. On September 29, 2007 Kanaykin set a new world record for the 20 km race walk at the 2007 IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final, in

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. He walked a time of 1 hour, 17 minutes, 16 seconds to break the record previously held by three-time world champion Jefferson Pérez of

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. Kanaykin competed in the 20 km race at the London Olympics in 2012, but was disqualified.

Doping scandal

On August 5, 2008, Kanaykin and his training partners Sergey Morozov,

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, and Aleksey Voyevodin, who are all coached by Viktor Chegin, were banned from competing for two years by the

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(WADA) after testing positive for EPO. The positive tests were conducted in April 2008 and evidenced doping. He took the silver in men's 20 km race walk in 1:20:27 at the

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in Daegu. On 20 January 2015, Kanaykin was disqualified for life starting from 17 December 2012, and all his results between 25 January 2011 and 25 March 2011, as well as between 16 June 2011 and 27 September 2011 were annulled. On March 25, 2015, the IAAF filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration in Lausanne, Switzerland, questioning the selective disqualification of the suspension periods of the six athletes involved including Kanaykin. On March 24, 2016, the court ruled and disqualified all of Kanaykin's results from February 11, 2011 to December 17, 2012.

International competitions

*Kanaykin was originally seventh at the

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, silver medallist at the

, bronze medallist at the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, and gold medallist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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