Klavdiya Afanasyeva
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Klavdiya Yuryevna Afanasyeva (
anti-doping violation, in May 2018 she was suspended from international competition due to participating in a training camp including banned coach Viktor Chegin
.
Career
Afanasyeva began competing on the national level in 2012 as a sixteen-year-old, finishing fourth at the
5000 m race walk at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics.[1]
In 2016, the
Authorized Neutral Athletes (ANA), and Afanasyeva was among the nineteen Russian athletes, and the only racewalker, cleared to compete in this manner at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics
.
At the 2017 World Championships, Afanasyeva competed in the
10 km split passed in 44:10, but she was ultimately one of six athletes disqualified for IAAF rule 230.6(a) "Repeated failure to comply with the definition of Race Walking."[2][3]
In May 2018, Afanasyeva's status as an
IAAF, along with that of four other Russian racewalkers, for participating in an April training camp that included coach Viktor Chegin, who has received a lifetime ban from the sport.[4][5] This prevented her from competing in any international competitions, including the 2018 IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships in China that month which she had qualified for.[6]
On June 9, 2018, Afanasyeva returned to competition for the first time since 2017, winning the
50 km race walk at the Russian Race Walking Championship.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Klavdiya Afanasyeva at World Athletics
- ^ "20 Kilometres Race Walk women Splits: IAAF World Championships London 2017".
- ^ "RACE ANALYSIS 20 Kilometres Race Walk Women - Final" (PDF).
- ^ "Authorised Neutral Athlete status of five race walkers revoked".
- ^ "IAAF suspends five Russian race walkers for attending training camp with banned coach Viktor Chegin".
- ^ Tétrault-Farber, Gabrielle. "IAAF suspends five Russian walkers from competing over banned coach".[dead link]
