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Place of Birth: Insar, Republic of Mordovia, Russia
About Sergey Kirdyapkin
- Sergey Alexandrovich Kirdyapkin (Russian: ?????´? ????????????? ?????????, born 18 June 1980 in Insar, Mordovia) is a Russian race walker.
- He was stripped of the 2012 Olympic gold medal in the 50K walk, by decision of the Court of Arbitration published 24 March 2016, due to doping violations.
- Due to these doping violations, he was given a three-year-and-two-month ban from athletic competition, backdated to 15 October 2012, allowing him time to still qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- However, Russia did not compete in athletics at the 2016 Olympics, due to the suspension of the governing body, the IAAF, due to widespread doping.
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