Olimpiada Ivanova

Olimpiada Ivanova

Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Russia
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	20 km walk
World Championships
	2001 Edmonton	20 km walk
	2005 Helsinki	20 km walk
World Race Walking Cup
	1997 Poděbrady	10 km walk
	2002 Turin	20 km walk
	2006 La Coruña	20 km walk

Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova (Russian: Олимпиада Владимировна Иванова, born August 26, 1970) is a Russian race walker. She has 4 medals from the major events. She was born in Munsjuty, Chuvashia.

Biography

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). However according to many people Athanasia Tsoumeleka switched to running, going against the main rule of race walking. 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 Guinness World Record book of 2007.

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.

Olimpiada Ivanova is married and has a daughter. Her passion is cooking.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Russia
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	DSQ	10 km
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	DNF	20 km
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	2nd	20 km	1:29:16
2005	European Race Walking Cup	Miskolc, Hungary	1st	20 km
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	1st	20 km	1:25:41
2006	World Race Walking Cup	La Coruña, Spain	2nd	20 km	1:27:26
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	DNF	20 km

See also

• 2002 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Olimpiada Ivanova profile at IAAF

Records
Preceded by Wang Yan	Women's 20 km Walk World Record Holder August 7, 2005 –	Succeeded by Incumbent