Olga Gennadyevna Golovkina (Ольга Геннадьевна Головкина; born 17 December 1986 in
Perm
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) is a Russian
athlete. She won the
gold medal in the
5000 m at the
2012 European Athletics Championships
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in
Helsinki
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in a time of 15:11.70 minutes.
Golovkina finished second in the 5000m at the
2013 Summer Universiade in
Kazan
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behind
Roxana Bârcă
Roxana Elisabeta Rotaru, née Bârcă (born 22 June 1988) is a Romanian long-distance runner. She represented her country in the 5000 metres at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. She also competed at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor ...
of Romania. She was subsequently upgraded to first place after Bârcă failed the post-race doping control, even though Golovkina herself then tested positive in an out-of-competition drugs test just five days after the race, for use of the prohibited anabolic steroid
Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. Golovkina was given a two-year ban from competition for her failed test, lasting from 16 July 2013 to 1 August 2015.
IAAF list of athletes suspended for doping - April 2014
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International competitions
See also
*List of doping cases in athletics
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1986 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Perm, Russia
Russian female long-distance runners
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
European Athletics Championships winners
European Athletics Championships medalists
Russian Athletics Championships winners
Doping cases in athletics
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
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