Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova (Russian: Олимпиада Владимировна Иванова, born 26 August 1970) is a Russian race walker.
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| Full name | Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Russia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 August 1970 Munsyut (Munsiut), Tsivilsky District, Chuvashia, Soviet Union (now Russia) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Women's athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Race walking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Viktor Chegin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Her first gold medal was won in the 2001 Edmonton World Championships, where she beat the rest of the world with the time 1.27:48. A year later, in 2002, she won another gold medal at the 2002 European Championship in Munich.
The next major sporting event she took part in was the 2004 Athens Olympics where she finished second. The winner was the home hero Athanasia Tsoumeleka, who deeply moved the ecstatic Greek crowd by getting her country's first ever medal in the event (time 1:29:12). Ivanova finished four seconds later and could not hide her disappointment. She did, however, win the gold for the 20 km walk in the 2005 Helsinki World Championships, beating the world record. For this record she was added to the 2007 Guinness World Record.[citation needed]
Ivanova was stripped of her silver medal in the 10 kilometer walk at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics after she had tested positive for stanozolol, and she was banned for two years. She is part of a group of over a dozen elite Russian race walkers, all coached by Viktor Chegin to receive doping bans.[citation needed]
Olimpiada Ivanova is married and has a daughter.[citation needed]
International competitions
edit| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result | Notes |
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Representing the  Soviet Union
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| 1986 | World Junior Championships | Athens, Greece | 15th | 5000 m | 25:01.87 | |
| Representing Russia
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| 1993 | World Race Walking Cup | Monterrey, Mexico | 12th | 10 km | 47:02 | |
| 1997 | World Race Walking Cup | Poděbrady, Czech Republic | 2nd | 10 km | 41:59 | |
| World Championships | Athens, Greece | — | 10 km | DQ | Doping | |
| 2000 | European Race Walking Cup | Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany | 1st | 20 km | 1:26:48 | |
| 2001 | European Race Walking Cup | Dudince, Slovakia | 1st | 20 km | 1:26:48 | |
| World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 1st | 20 km | 1:27:48 | ||
| 2002 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 1st | 20 km | 1:26:42 | |
| 2003 | World Championships | Paris, France | — | 20 km | DNF | |
| 2004 | Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 2nd | 20 km | 1:29:16 | |
| 2005 | European Race Walking Cup | Miskolc, Hungary | 1st | 20 km | 1:28:18 | |
| World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 1st | 20 km | 1:25:41 | ||
| 2006 | World Race Walking Cup | A Coruña, Spain | 2nd | 20 km | 1:27:26 | |
| 2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | — | 20 km | DNF | |
See also
edit- List of doping cases in athletics
- List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)
- List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women)
- List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners
- List of European Athletics Championships medalists (women)
- List of doping cases in sport by substance
- List of Chuvashes
- Russia at the World Athletics Championships
- Doping at the World Athletics Championships
References
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