13th May 2013 08:45
Not only did she overtake her teammate in the dramatic, final moments of the race, her win came in 1:25:02, a world record time.
It confirmed Lashmanova as the greatest of women athletes, making it five wins out of five in the big events she has competed in.
This Sunday in Dudince, Slovakia, she has the opportunity to make it six as the star name as the head of the big fields in the European Cup Race Walking.
A total of 283 athletes have entered this European Athletics event, just one short of the record from this same venue in 2001. Click here for the final entries.
They are made up from 29 countries and in the women's 20km, Russia will be the dominant force.
Lashmanova will face Yelena Sokolova, the former world record-holder, and Anisya Kirdyapkina, who won silver at the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona in 2010.
At only just 21 Lashmanova has started 2013 off in style, winning all three races she has entered this year and leading the European rankings with 1:25:49 from the Russian championships in Sochi in February when Kirdyapkina was only 10 seconds behind her.
The biggest entry is for the men's 20km race where there will be great home support for Slovakia's No 1 Matej Toth.
But it should be a superb race in a field of outstanding quality.
It includes Spain's Miguel Angel Lopez, fifth in London, Robert Heffernan, of Ireland, who was ninth in the 20km and fourth in the 50km at those Olympics, Italy's Giorgia Rubino, the 2009 European Cup Race Walking champion from Metz, and Russian Piotr Trofimov, who leads the world rankings with 1:18:28 at 20km track.
The full list of numbers for each event is:
20km
Men: 75 athletes and 18 teams.
Women: 58 athletes and12 teams.
50km
Men: 50 athletes and 10 teams.
10km (Juniors)
Men: 54 athletes and 18 teams.
Women: 46 athletes and 15 teams.
Click on the link for a complete list of the final entries.