Denis Nizhegorodov

Denis Gennadyevich Nizhegorodov is a retired Russian race walker who specialised in the 50 kilometres distance. He was born on 26 July 1980 and competed for Russia at two Summer Olympics, in 2004 and 2008, taking the silver medal in the first and the bronze medal in the second. Between 2008 and 2014 he held the world record for the 50 kilometre walk, with a time of 3:34:14. In May 2016 he was named among fourteen Russian athletes implicated in doping after urine samples from the 2008 Olympic Games were retested; his A sample failed the retest, but the result was not confirmed on his B sample. The account of his career given here rests on his English Wikipedia article, which describes the record, the two Olympic appearances and the retest.