Anisya Kirdyapkina
Personal information
Birth nameAnisya Byasyrovna Kornikova
Born (1989-10-23) October 23, 1989
Saransk, Mordovia
Height1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Weight47 kg (104 lb)
Sport
Country Russia
SportWomen's athletics
Event20km Race Walk
Medal record
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2009 Berlin20 km walk
Disqualified2013 Moscow20 km walk
Disqualified2011 Daegu20 km walk
European Championships
Gold medal – first place2010 Barcelona20 km walk
Universiade
Disqualified 2013 Kazan 20 km walk
Disqualified 2013 Kazan Team 20 km walk

Anisya Byasyrovna Kirdyapkina (Russian: Анися Бясыровна Кирдяпкина; née Kornikova Russian: Корникова; born October 23, 1989) is a Russian race walker. She is married to Sergey Kirdyapkin, who is also a racewalker. She was discovered by the race walking coach Konstantin Nacharkin at the age of nine.[1] 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.[1]

Career

In 2007, she won the Russian Winter Championships, the European Race Walking Cup and the European Junior Championships, all 10 km races.[1] She race in the 20 km IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final, which was held in her hometown of Saransk.[1] She finished second to Olga Kaniskina.[1] She received two technique disqualifications in races in 2008.[1] 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.[1] In 2010, she won the summer and winter Russian titles, setting a new personal best of 1.25.11.[1] That year, she finished second in a Russian one, two, three at the European Championships.[1] At the 2011 she won a bronze medal at the World Championships.[1]

Kirdyapkina's qualification for the 2012 Olympics came down to a battle between her and Tatyana Sibileva.[1] Kirdyapkina qualified for the 2012 Olympics by beating Sibileva at the Russian National Championships.[1] At the 2012 Olympics, she finished in 5th place.[1]

At the 2013 Universiade, held in Kazan, Russia, Kirdyapkina lead a Russian one, two, three with a championship record of 1:29:30.[1] She finished in second in the 2013 World Championships in Moscow beaten by Russian teammate Elena Lashmanova.[1]

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.[2]

International competitions

Representing  Russia
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventResultNotes
2007 European Race Walking Cup Leamington Spa, United Kingdom 1st 10 km walk 43:17
2nd Junior team 18 pts
European Junior Championships Hengelo, Netherlands 1st 10,000 m walk 43:27.20
2008 World Race Walking Cup Cheboksary, Russia — 20 km walk DQ Lifting
2009 European Race Walking Cup Metz, France 2nd 20 km walk 1:33:28
1st Team 14 pts
World Championships Berlin, Germany 3rd 20 km walk 1:30:09
2010 World Race Walking Cup Chihuahua, Mexico 6th 20 km walk 1:34:47
European Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st 20 km walk 1:28:55
2011 European Race Walking Cup Olhão, Portugal DQ (2nd) 20 km walk 1:30:41 Doping
DQ (1st) Team 14 pts Doping
World Championships Daegu, South Korea DQ (3rd) 20 km walk 1:30:12 Doping
2012 World Race Walking Cup Saransk, Russia DQ (6th) 20 km walk 1:31:00 Doping
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom DQ (5th) 20 km walk 1:26:26 Doping
2013 European Race Walking Cup Dudince, Slovakia DQ (1st) 20 km walk 1:28:39 Doping
DQ (1st) Team 6 pts Doping
Universiade Kazan, Russia DQ (1st) 20 km walk 1:29:30 Doping
DQ (1st) Team 4:32:41 Doping
World Championships Moscow, Russia DQ (2nd) 20 km walk 1:27:11 Doping
2014 World Race Walking Cup Taicang, China 1st 20 km walk 1:26:31
2015 Universiade Gwangju, South Korea 1st 20 km walk 1:28:18
1st Team 4:33:11

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Dyachkova, Elena (16 April 2014). "IAAF: Anisya Kirdyapkina | Profile". iaaf.org. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "Athletics news - Russian race walker Anisya Kirdyapkina gets doping ban - CAS". Eurosport. 2021-11-15. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
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