| Birth Place: | Saransk, Russia |
| Height: | 174 cm |
| Weight: | 63 kg |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Race walking |
| Club: | TsOP Saransk |
| Retired: | 2013[1] |
| Pb: | 50 km walk – 3:34:14 (2008)[2] |
Denis Gennadyevich Nizhegorodov (Russian: Денис Геннадьевич Нижегородов; born 26 July 1980) is a retired Russian race walker. Between 2008 and 2014 he held the world record over 50 km distance, with a time of 3:34:14. He competed in this event at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics and won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively.[2]
In May 2016, Nizhegorodov became one of 14 Russian athletes implicated in doping following the retesting of urine from the 2008 Olympic Games. His sample A failed the retest, but these results were not confirmed on his sample B.[3]
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany | 17th | 20 km | 1:22:40 | ||
| 2001 | Dudince, Slovakia | 7th | 20 km | 1:20:42 | ||
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | Team – 20 km | 13 pts | |||
| European U23 Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 5th | 20 km | 1:23:32 | ||
| Universiade | Beijing, China | 4th | 20 km | 1:25:31 | ||
| 2003 | Paris, France | 5th | 50 km | 3:38:23 | ||
| 2004 | Athens, Greece | 2nd | 50 km | 3:42:50 | ||
| 2006 | A Coruña, Spain | 1st | 50 km | 3:38:02 | ||
| European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | — | 50 km | DQ | ||
| 2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 4th | 50 km | 3:46:57 | |
| 2008 | Cheboksary, Russia | 1st | 50 km | 3:34:14 | ||
| Beijing, China | 3rd | 50 km | 3:40:14 | |||
| 2009 | European Race Walking Cup | Metz, France | 1st | 50 km | 3:42:47 | |
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | Team – 50 km | 8 pts | |||
| World Championships | Berlin, Germany | — | 50 km | DNF | ||
| 2011 | European Race Walking Cup | Olhão, Portugal | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 50 km | 3:45:58 |
| World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 1st | 50 km | 3:42:45 | ||