Denis Sergeyevich Strelkov (; born 26 October 1990) is a
race walker
Race walking, or racewalking, 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 asses ...
. He won the
bronze medal
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in the
20-kilometre walk at the
2014 European Championships in Athletics. He continues to be coached by
Viktor Chegin
Viktor Mikhailovich Chegin (; 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 medals at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics: Olg ...
, after he has been suspended for a lengthy series of
performance-enhancing drug
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Many substances, such as anabolic steroids, can be used to improve at ...
suspensions against many of his athletes.
Doping case
In September 2015 IAAF confirmed that Strelkov 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
See also
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List of doping cases in athletics
The use of performance-enhancing drugs (doping in sport) is prohibited within the sport of athletics. Athletes who are found to have used such banned substances, whether through a positive drugs test, the biological passport system, an investig ...
References
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1990 births
Living people
Russian male race walkers
FISU World University Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Russia
FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Russia
Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
European Athletics Championships medalists
Russian Athletics Championships winners
Doping cases in athletics
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
21st-century Russian sportsmen
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