Olga Golovkina pictured above during the final of the women's 5,000 metres at the 2012
European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. She won the gold medal.
She ran a 15:05.26 at the 2012 London Olympic Games for her then personal best.
In 2013 she tested positive in an out-of-competition drugs test
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 |
Olga Golovkina |
Russia |
15:11.70 |
| 2 |
Lyudmyla Kovalenko |
Ukraine |
15:12.03 |
| 3 |
Sara Moreira |
Portugal |
15:12.05 |
In 2017 she recorded a time of 15:34.44 for 5,000 metres, in Sochi (FGUP Yug Sport)
and in Moscow the same year a time of 9:09.67 for 3,000 metres.