Viktor Chegin

Viktor Mikhailovich Chegin (Russian: Виктор Михайлович Чёгин; born 3 February 1962 in Bersenevka, Lyambirsky District) is a retired Russian racewalking coach. He was responsible for training all three athletes who swept the medals at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics: Olga Kaniskina, Valeriy Borchin and Sergey Kirdyapkin. His athletes Elena Lashmanova and Kirdyapkin won gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics, with Kaniskina earning a silver medal. Current world record holders Lashmanova, Denis Nizhegorodov and Sergey Morozov are all coached by Chegin.

More than 20 of Chegin's trainees were disqualified for doping-related offenses between 2005 and 2015. As a result, on 16 July 2014 he was removed from the Russian athletics team and on 17 February 2016 banned for life from all sport-related activities.

Biography

On 16 July 2014, Chegin was fired from the Russian team amid an investigation by the Russian Anti Doping Agency (RUSADA).[1] Sovetsky Sport quoted Valentin Balakhnichev, head of the All-Russia Athletic Federation saying Chegin would not be part of the team for the European championship, as the recent doping scandals had “tarnished Chegin’s career” but said the coach would continue to train athletes in Russia.[2]

While not part of the official delegation, Chegin was spotted in August 2014 in Zurich along the course of the 2014 European Athletics Championships coaching his athletes after the ban was in place.[3]

Banned for life in December 2012, after a second doping violation, Morozov continued to work with Chegin as an accredited Russian staff member at the 2014 IAAF World Race Walking Cup.[4]

Chegin coaches at the Centre of the Olympic training of Mordovia in Saransk, where he has been highly honored as "the father of all the victories of our race walkers."[5][6][7][8] He was named a "Chevalier of the Order of Glory of Mordovia"[9]

As early as 2008, there were accusations of systematic doping violations on the part of Chegin.[10] Several other athletes have skipped major championships, which have raised suspicions of doping and avoidance of Drug Testing.[11]

Several of Chegin's suspended athletes, including Sergey Bakulin, Elena Lashmanova and Ekaterina Medvedeva apparently competed in a race on 30 December 2014 according to photographs collected by Canadian race walker Evan Dunfee.[12] Russian officials claim the photographs are from a 2012 event and released additional photographs which show different athletes on the awards stands. Although it is impossible to be from 2012 as the Running Shoes used, were not released by Asics until after 2012.[13]

On 15 July 2015 Chegin was suspended by the Russian athletics federation. Prior to that date, Chegin had been allowed to coach.[14] The day before, IAAF ratified a new word record in the 20 km walk by Liu Hong.[15] Two record breaking performances, months earlier, by Chegin coached Olimpiada Ivanova and Olga Kaniskina were ignored in the process, ostensibly for judging inadequacy.[16] In the year since Balakhnichev cleared Chegin to continuing coaching, Balakhnichev resigned his positions with the All-Russia Athletic Federation and as Treasurer of the IAAF in light of the scandal. His replacement, Vadim Zelichenok, said “Athletes will not be allowed to work with Chegin, or otherwise they come under sanctions.”[14]

On 9 November 2015, an investigative report by the World Anti-Doping Agency recommended that Chegin be given a lifetime ban from sport, due to involvement in a wide-ranging Russian doping scheme in track and field.[17] The ban was issued by RUSADA on 17 February 2016.[18]

Athletes coached by Chegin and banned for doping offenses

37 athletes in total had by January 2015 been banned by IAAF in biological passport cases.[19] 11 of them, or ca. 30%, was coached by Viktor Chegin. There are also at least 6 EPO positives recorded by his athletes, two positives for the possible cancer causing black market drug GW1516, and in 2014 two of his athletes tested positive for SARMs. 3 of his athletes have been banned for life, all for their second anti-doping rule violation, and all before the age of 30. Plus one of his athletes German Skurygin died of a heart attack at age 45.

Other athletes coached by Chegin

References

  1. ↑ Russia Fires Walk Coach Investigated for Doping | News. The Moscow Times (16 July 2014). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  2. ↑ Russia cuts coach amid doping probe. IOL (16 July 2014). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  3. ↑ Europei: allenatore russo sospeso per doping, visto a bordo pista durante marcia – Il Fatto Quotidiano. Ilfattoquotidiano.it (14 August 2014). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  4. ↑ IAAF responds to Jared Tallent's doping concerns. Smh.com.au (25 June 2014). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  5. ↑ Account Suspended. Prof.mrsu.ru. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 January 1970. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Nizhegorodov begins long stroll to Beijing glory| News. iaaf.org (25 March 2005). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  9. ↑ Double Russian success as junior records fall in Saransk; challenge titles for Plätzer and Sanchez| News. iaaf.org. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Nocookies. The Australian. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  11. ↑ Tallent wary of absent Russians. Smh.com.au (13 August 2013). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  12. ↑ Another Russian race-walker under scrutiny. Uk.news.yahoo.com (16 January 2015). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  13. ↑ The beginning of the end for Saransk and russia – Dunfee Walks. Dunfeewalks.weebly.com (13 January 2015). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  14. 1 2 Russia’s suspends top race-walking coach over doping washingtontimes.com 15 July 2015. Washingtontimes.com. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  15. ↑ World records ratified| News. iaaf.org. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  16. ↑ Liu breaks 20km race walk world record in La Coruna| News. iaaf.org. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  17. ↑ Riach, James (9 November 2015). "London 2012 ‘sabotaged’ by Russia: 10 key findings from Wada’s doping report". Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
  18. ↑ Тренер по спортивной ходьбе Чегин пожизненно дисквалифицирован. TASS.ru (25 March 2016)
  19. ↑ IAAF: 21 JAN 2015 Press Release Monaco IAAF comment on sanctions for Russian race walkers, iaaf.org 21 January 2015
  20. ↑ EME News November 11th–12th, by Alfons Juck, note by Kevin Mangan. American-trackandfield.com. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  21. ↑ Tatyana Akulinushkina latest Russian race walker caught doping, ESPN, 12 May 2015
  22. 1 2 3 4 5 6 James Ellingworth: 6 Russian race walkers suspended over positive drug tests, Associated Press, bigstory.ap.org, 22 September 2015
  23. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 IAAF: List of athletes currently serving a period of ineligibility as a result of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under IAAF Rules
  24. 1 2 3 4 5 "Информация о дисквалификации: легкая атлетика" (in Russian). Russian Anti-Doping Agency. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
  25. 1 2 3 Russia athletes banned over drugs – BBC Sport. BBC News (7 August 2008). Retrieved on 2016-03-26.
  26. 1 2 IAAF: Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 11.1.13, iaaf.org
  27. ↑ Three Russian track and field athletes recognized ineligible | RUSADA. Rusada.ru. Retrieved on 26 March 2016.
  28. ↑ "Heffernan set to claim retrospective bronze from 2010 Euros". Irish Examiner. 31 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  29. ↑ "List of athletes currently serving a period of ineligibility as a result of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under IAAF Rules as at: 28.07.14" (PDF). IAAF. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  30. ↑ Олимпизм: Дисквалификация восьми российских легкоатлетов утверждена (in Russian). Пекин 2008: XXIX Олимпийские игры. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
  31. ↑ "Russian athlete Igor Yerokhin disqualified for life for violating anti-doping rules (translation from Ukrainian)". hotsport.ua. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  32. ↑ Øystein Jarlsbo: Favoritten dop-tatt i 1997, vg.no 30 August 2007
  33. ↑ Howard Fendrich: 5 Athletes Test Positive For Doping, The Moscow Times 12 August 1997
  34. ↑ New doping scandal ran after Russian walkers. Russia Today (24 September 2008). Retrieved on 2012-04-01.
  35. ↑ Morozov Sergey. IAAF. Retrieved on 1 April 2102.
  36. ↑ Doping Rule Violation. IAAF (5 November 2008). Retrieved on 2012-04-01.
  37. ↑ Race walking gets its very own, preposterous doping scandal, New York Post, 15 October 2014
  38. ↑ RUSADA: Информация о временном отстранении: легкая атлетика, 14 October 2014
  39. ↑ Dmitriy Rogovitskiy: Russian walker Ruzavin banned for doping, sports.yahoo.com, 17 March 2015
  40. ↑ Bernardo José Mora: German Skurygin (1963–2008)
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