Alina Ivanova

Alina Petrovna Ivanova is a retired Russian long-distance athlete who competing in race walking and road running. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the women's 10 km walk at the 1991 [World Championships in Athletics|1991 World Championships] in Tokyo, Japan. She represented the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
She changed to the marathon run later in her career and was a two-time winner at both the Prague International Marathon and the Dublin Marathon.