Denis Sergeyevich Strelkov (; born 26 October 1990) is a Russian race walker. He won the bronze medal in the 20-kilometre walk at the 2014 European Championships in Athletics. He continues to be coached by Viktor Chegin, after he has been suspended for a lengthy series of performance-enhancing drug suspensions against many of his athletes.
Doping case In September 2015 IAAF confirmed that Strelkov was provisionally suspended after a sample from an out-of-competition control in Saransk in June had been found positive for a prohibited substance.James Ellingworth: 6 Russian race walkers suspended over positive drug tests , Associated Press, bigstory.ap.org, 22 September 2015
Competition record Representing 2007World Youth ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic8th10,000m44:34.662008World Race Walking Cup (U20)Cheboksary, Russia3rd10 km40:172009European Race Walking Cup (U20)Metz, France10th10 km43:291stTeam - 10 km Junior3 ptsEuropean Junior ChampionshipsNovi Sad, Serbia2nd10,000m40:24.972010World Race Walking Cup (U20)Chihuahua, Mexico16th20 km1:25:302011European Race Walking CupOlhão, Portugal11th50 km4:04:36European U23 ChampionshipsOstrava, Czech Republic2nd20 km1:24:252013European Race Walking CupDudince, Slovakia1st20 km1:21:401stTeam - 20 km20 ptsWorld ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia5th20 km1:22:062014World Race Walking CupTaicang, China30th20 km1:21:58European ChampionshipsZurich, Switzerland3rd20 km1:19:462015European Race Walking CupMurcia, Spain9th20 km1:22:472nd20 km - Team35 pts
See also List of doping cases in athletics
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