Elmira Shamilevna Alembekova (; Tatar Latin: Elmira Şəmil qızı Əlimbeyova; born 30 June 1990 in Saransk):ru:Алембекова, Эльмира Шамильевна, Retrieved 3 June 2015 is a Russian race walker. She won the gold medal in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2014 European Championships in Athletics. She continues to be coached by Viktor Chegin, after he has been suspended for a lengthy series of performance-enhancing drug suspensions against many of his athletes.
Doping case In September 2015 IAAF confirmed that Alembekova was provisionally suspended after a sample from an out-of-competition control in Saransk in June had been found positive for a prohibited substance.James Ellingworth: 6 Russian race walkers suspended over positive drug tests , Associated Press, bigstory.ap.org, 22 September 2015
Competition record Representing 2005World Youth ChampionshipsMarrakesh, Morocco2nd5000 m22:27.172008World Race Walking Cup (U20)Cheboksary, Russia3rd10 km44:39World Junior ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland2nd10,000m43:45.162009European Junior ChampionshipsNovi Sad, Serbia1st10,000m46:31.072012World Race Walking CupSaransk, Russia —20 kmDNF2014World Race Walking CupTaicang, China3rd20 km1:27:02European ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland1st20 km1:27:562015European Race Walking CupMurcia, Spain1st20 km1:26:151st20 km - Team9 pts
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