Olimpiada Ivanova

{{short description|Russian race walker}}

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| name = Olimpiada Ivanova

| image = Olimpiada Ivanova, April 2015.jpg

| caption = Ivanova in 2015

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| fullname = Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|08|26|df=y}}

| birth_place = Munsyut (Munsiut), Tsivilsky District, Chuvashia, Soviet Union (now Russia)

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| sport = Women's athletics

| event = Race walking

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| coach = Viktor Chegin

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{{Medal|Olympics}}

{{Medal|Silver|2004 Athens| 20 km walk}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2001 Edmonton|20 km walk}}

{{Medal|Gold|2005 Helsinki|20 km walk}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Race Walking Cup}}

{{Medal|Silver|1997 Poděbrady|10 km walk}}

{{Medal|Silver|2002 Turin|20 km walk}}

{{Medal|Silver|2006 La Coruña|20 km walk}}

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Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova ({{langx|ru|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 2007 Guinness World Record.{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}

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.{{fact|date=July 2022}}

Olimpiada Ivanova is married and has a daughter.{{fact|date=July 2022}}