 Olga Golovkina 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 | 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]
