Olimpiada Ivanova

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Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Russia
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	20 km walk
World Championships
Gold	2001 Edmonton	20 km walk
Gold	2005 Helsinki	20 km walk

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

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.