Career
She received a two-year ban for a doping violation along with a similar penalty for the majority of her training partners shortly thereafter. Lashmanova had a positive doping test announced 22 June 2014, one of a large number of Russian race-walkers to test positive, and has been suspended for 2 years. She joined over a dozen other elite Russian race walkers all coached by Viktor Chegin to receive doping suspensions.
She was alleged to have competed on 30 December 2014 despite the drug suspension.
If proven her ban could be extended for a further two years. Her world record was beaten in 2015 by China"s Liu Hong.