About Anisya Kirdyapkina
Anisya Byasyrovna Kirdyapkina (Russian: Анися Бясыровна Кирдяпкина; née Kornikova Russian: Корникова; born 23 October 1989) is a Russian race walker. She is married to Sergey Kirdyapkin, who is also a racewalker. She was discovered by the race walking coach Konstantin Nacharkin at the age of nine. She met her future husband through race walking and they were married when she was 18. As of 2014, they shared a coach, Viktor Chegin. == Career == In 2007, she won the Russian Winter Championships, the European Race Walking Cup and the European Junior Championships, all 10 km races. She race in the 20 km IAAF Race Walking Challenge Final, which was held in her hometown of Saransk. She finished second to Olga Kaniskina. She received two technique disqualifications in races in 2008. In 2009, she finished in 4th at the World Championships which was retrospectively upgraded to bronze due to the disqualification of the original gold medalist, 5 days before her husband won gold.
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