Alina Petrovna Ivanova (; born 16 March 1969 in Kildishevo, Yadrinsky District, Chuvash ASSR) is a retired Russian long-distance athlete who competing in

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and

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. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's 10 km walk at the 1991 World Championships in

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. She represented the Unified Team at the

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. She changed to the

marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ...

run later in her career and was a two-time winner at both the

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and the Dublin Marathon.

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* * * 1969 births Living people People from Yadrinsky District Athletes from Chuvashia Soviet female marathon runners Soviet female long-distance runners Soviet female race walkers Russian female marathon runners Russian female long-distance runners Russian female race walkers Olympic athletes for the Unified Team Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Russia World Athletics Championships athletes for the Soviet Union World Athletics Championships medalists CIS Athletics Championships winners Soviet Athletics Championships winners World Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Russian sportswomen {{Russia-longdistance-athletics-bio-stub