Mordovia together with Chuvasia is one of the two leaders Republics of Russia as regards race walking. From this Republic have come out the names of the award-champions of the years between 2005 and 2013 as Olga Kaniskina, Elena Lashmanova, Sergey Kirdyapkin and Sergey Bakulin just to name a few.

All these four athletes had already competed, with excellent results, in the course of 2016 after serving a period of ineligibility for doping, but they had done within the Russian Federation, not being able to compete abroad for the known facts.

We report for the benefit of our readers below their 2016 results:

Olga Kaniskina

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:25:54 (1st)

Elena Lashmanova

25.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 20km: 1:24.58 (1st)

Sergey Kirdyapkin

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 35km: 2:30:40 (2nd)

Sergey Bakulin

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 35km: 2:28:29 (1st)

All these four athletes are now candidates to be part of the Mordovia national team for 2017.

To them to add:

Alexey Barsaykin

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 35km: 2:37:14 (4th)

Stanislav Emelyanov

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 19:47.34 (5th)

Roman Evtifeev

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 19:19.63 (2nd)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 35km: 2:31:49 (3rd)

26.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 50km: DNF

Denis Nizhegorodov

26.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 50km: 3:44:47 (1st)

Alexander Ivanov

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:22:05 (2nd)

Sergei Sharypov

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 19:28.75 (3rd)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 35km: 2:38:42 (5th)

26.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 50km: 3:46:51 (2nd)

Svetlana Vasilyeva

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 3km: 12:00.10 (2nd)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:27:58 (4th)

25.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 20km: DQ

Anisya Kornikova-Kirdyapkina

in 2016 she doesn’t compete (pregnancy)

Tatiana Mineeva

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 3km: 12:52.70 (6th)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:30:05 (7th)

Sophia Brodatskaya

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 3km: 12:28.97 (4th)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:36:33 (11th)

Yekaterina Medvedeva

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:26:40 (2nd)

25.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 20km: 1:26:45 (2nd)

Aleksandr Shunikhin

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 21:45.59 (10th)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 35km: 2:41:34 (7th)

26.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 50km: 4:11.43 (4th)

Dementiy Cheparev

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 20.32.82 (6th)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:27:05 (8th)

25.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 20km: 1.22:54 (2nd)

Gennadiy Kanayev

26.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 50km: 4:13:47 (5th)

Petr Bogatyrev

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 19:43.28 (4th)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: DNF

25.6.2016 - Russian Summer Championships - Cheboksary - 20km: DQ

Pavel Parshin

18.7.2016 - Moskva Stars 2016 - Moscow - 5km: 20:45.61 (8th)

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:25:47 (6th)

Aleksaandr Nazarov

27.2.2016 - Russian Winter Championships - Sochi - 20km: 1:28:37 (10th)

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