Olga Golovkina

Olga Golovkina

Olga Golovkina (left) winning the 5000 m final at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki
Personal information
Full name	Olga Gennadyevna Golovkina
Born	17 December 1986 Perm, Russia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb) (2013)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	5000 m
College team	Chaykovsky State Institute of Physical Culture

Olga Gennadyevna Golovkina (Ольга Геннадьевна Головкина; born 17 December 1986 in Perm) is a Russian athlete. She won the gold medal in the 5000 m at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in a time of 15:11.70 minutes.

Golovkina finished second in the 5000m at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan behind Roxana Bârcă of Romania. She was subsequently upgraded to first place after Bârcă failed the post-race doping control, even though Golovkina herself then tested positive in an out-of-competition drugs test just five days after the race, for use of the prohibited anabolic steroid Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. Golovkina was given a two-year ban from competition for her failed test, lasting from 16 July 2013 to 1 August 2015.^[1][2]

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Russia
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	9th	5000 m	15:31.11
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	5000 m	15:11.70
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	9th	5000 m	15:17.88
2013	Universiade	Kazan, Russia	1st	5000 m	15:43.77

External links

• Olga Golovkina profile at IAAF

References

1. Anderson, Gary. (2013-12-16). FISU President Gallien "embarrassed" by doping row at Kazan 2013 and hopes Russians will do right thing. Inside the Games. Retrieved on 2014-11-30.
2. IAAF list of athletes suspended for doping - April 2014