Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova (Russian: Олимпиада Владимировна Иванова, born 26 August 1970) is a Russian race walker.
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 Guinness World Record book of 2007[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.
Olimpiada Ivanova is married and has a daughter. Her passion is cooking.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Result | Notes |
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1986 | World Junior Championships | Athens, Greece | 15th | 5000 m | 25:01.87 | |
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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 |
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Preceded by | Women's 20 km Walk World Record Holder 7 August 2005 – 26 February 2011 |
Succeeded by Vera Sokolova |
World Athletics Championships champions in women's racewalking | |
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1987–1997 10 kilometres |
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1999–present 20 kilometres |
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2017–present 50 kilometres |
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European Athletics Championships champions in women's racewalking | |
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1986–1998 10 kilometres race walk |
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2002–present 20 kilometres race walk |
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2018–present 50 kilometres race walk |
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Russian Athletics Championships women's racewalking champions | |
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20 km walk |
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50 km walk |
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World Best Year Performance in women's race walking | |
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20 km walk |
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