Alevtina Ivanova () (born 22 May 1975) is a Russian

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who specialises in the

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. She has won at the

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(in 2002) and the

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(in 2007 and 2008). Ivanova has competed much on the

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circuit in the

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and has won the

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, Crim 10-Mile Race, News and Sentinel Half Marathon and

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. She has represented Russia internationally in

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: she was the best-performing

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an in the short race at the

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and took part in the

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. In addition to professional competition, she has acted as a

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in major marathons in

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Career

She made her debut over the classic distance in 2002 at the

and she won, finishing in a time of 2:32:24. She improved her time further at the

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in October, where she ran 2:30:25 for sixth place, and then she took third place at the

Honolulu Marathon The Honolulu Marathon (branded JAL Honolulu Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is a marathon (26.2 miles or 42.2km) in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was first held on December 16, 1973, and it typically takes places on the second Sunday in December. The ma ...

. The following year she took part in the

for the first time and finished in second place behind compatriot

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with a personal best time of 2:29:05. She also ran in the

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(taking fourth) and returned to Honolulu where she improved to second place. At the

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, she ran a course record of 53:18 to win the competition. In 2004, Ivanova ran at the Nagano Marathon for a second time, finishing fourth on this occasion. She started a tour of the United States and ran in a succession of races in August. She started with a third-place finish at the Beach to Beacon race, scored a victory in the

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the following week, won at the

the next weekend, and then beat all comers at the News and Sentinel Half Marathon in

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a week later.News and Sentinel Half Marathon

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. Retrieved on 2010-08-08. She closed the year with a fourth-place finish at the Honolulu Marathon. She won the Russian

championships at the start of 2005 and entered the short race at the

. She placed tenth in the race – the best performance by an athlete outside of the dominant teams of

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and

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. A return to the Beach to Beacon race saw her finish as runner-up to

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. Ivanova was eighth at the Virginia Beach Half Marathon. She was employed as the

for the 2005

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and led the race up to the 25 km point. She again ran in Honolulu and reached the podium by taking third place. At the start of 2006, she set a course record at the Uptown Run in

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, winning the 8 km race in a time of 25:16. She set a number of bests from 15 km to 25 km at the

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, although she failed to finish the race.Ivanova Alevtina

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. Retrieved on 2010-08-08. In her third attempt at the Beach to Beacon Race she beat

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to win the title of the 10K competition. She also won the News and Sentinel Half Marathon for a second time in August 2006, and also took the title at the Crim 10-Mile Race in

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that month. At the end of the year she represented Russia at the

, where she was sixteenth and helped the Russia women's team to fourth place along with

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. She acted as the pacemaker for the Tokyo Women's Marathon in November and she set an unofficial best of 1:10:53 over the

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distance. She won the 2007 Nagano Marathon, building up a large lead in the final stages to score a personal best of 2:27:49, as well as a win over

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, among others. Ivanova competed in

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for the first time at the

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and she finished in eighth place. The following year's Nagano Marathon brought even further improvement for the Russian as she not only defended her title, but knocked over a minute off her best with a run of 2:26:39. Ivanova led the 2009

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for much of the race, but she was eventually overhauled by Caroline Rotich. She managed to finish as runner-up to Helena Kirop at the 2010 Prague Marathon, running one of her fastest times with 2:27:36. She was sixth at the

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in her first race of 2011. She won the Saint Petersburg Marathon in June then returned to Yokohama for its new November timing, but was outside of the top ten. She returned to the podium at the San Diego Marathon in June 2012, winning the race in a time of 2:27:44 hours.June 2012 AIMS Results
AIMS. Retrieved on 2012-06-09.

Personal bests

*All information taken from IAAF profile.

References

External links

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