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. Race judges carefully asse ...

. 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 de ...

, 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 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 ...

. She finished second to Olga Kaniskina. She received two technique disqualifications in races in 2008. In 2009, she finished in 4th at the

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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

. 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 Elena Anatolyevna Lashmanova (russian: Елена Анатольевна Лашманова, born 9 April 1992 in Saransk, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker. In March 2022 she accepted a two-year ban, retroactive to March 2021, and all of her re ...

. 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.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kirdyapkina, Anisya 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