Albina Mayorova (born 16 May 1977), née ''Albina Gennadyevna Ivanova'' (russian: Альбина Геннадьевна Иванова), is a Russian
long-distance runner who competes in
marathon races. She has a personal best of 2:23:52 hours for the distance. Since her marathon debut in 2001, she has won international races in
Dubai
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,
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
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,
Singapore
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and
Nagoya
is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most po ...
. She has also had top four finishes at the
Chicago
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London
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and
Honolulu Marathon
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s.
She represented Russia in the marathon at the
2004 Summer Olympics,
2012 Summer Olympics and the
2006 European Athletics Championships. She was the 2005 Russian champion in
cross country running
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and also competed for Russia at the
2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
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. She competed in the marathon at the
2013 World Championships in Athletics
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.
Career
Born in the rural town of
Erenary in
Alikovsky District in the west of Russia, she enlisted in the Russian Army and began competing in long-distance events for
Cheboksary
Cheboksary (; russian: Чебокса́ры, r=Cheboksáry, p=tɕɪbɐˈksarɨ; cv, Шупашкар, ''Şupaşkar'') is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia and a port on the Volga River.
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(the regional capital). Her first major performances in the marathon came in 2001. On her debut at the
Moscow Marathon she finished in third place and later that year she ran a personal best of 2:34:46 hours at the
Siberian International Marathon in
Omsk, taking second place behind
Irina Safarova. Mayorova claimed her first victory over the distance at the
Dubai Marathon
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Initial era
The inaugural Dubai Marathon was held ...
in January 2002 and she improved her best time to 2:33:31 hours. Her first international appearance followed at the
2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
The 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships took place on March 23/24, 2002. The races were held at the Leopardstown Racecourse, Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, near Dublin, Ireland. Reports of the event were given in ''The New York Times'',
...
in
Dublin
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and her 28th-place finish helped the Russian women to fourth place in the short race rankings.
At the
Columbus Marathon in the United States she came second and dipped under two and a half hours with her time of 2:29:58. She returned to the marathon in Omsk and had her second win of the year, before going on to improve her best by five seconds in a runner-up performance 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, first held in 1973. It is one of the world's largest marathons, taking place annually on the second Sunday in ...
.
[Ivanova Albina]
Marathon Info. Retrieved on 2012-03-20. She competed principally in American races the following year: she ran a time of 2:30:57 to finished sixth at the
Boston Marathon in April and won the
Fifth Third River Bank Run 25K a month later. She had the best run of her career at the
Chicago Marathon
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in October, improving her best by over four minutes to claim fourth place with her time of 2:25:35 hours. She returned to Honolulu at the end of the year and finished third on that occasion.
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In 2004, she had a fourth-place finish at the ]London Marathon
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and her time of 2:27:25 led to her inclusion in the Russian Olympic marathon squad.[ She won the ]Lilac Bloomsday Run
The Lilac Bloomsday Run, also known as Bloomsday, is an annual timed road race in the northwest United States, held on the first Sunday of May since 1977 in The course length is 12 km (7.456 mi).
The run has had over 38,000 participants every ...
and Bay to Breakers 12K races in May that year. On her Olympic debut at the age of 27, Mayorova was some twenty minutes slower than her London outing and managed only fortieth place overall. She had better performances on the American circuit later that year, taking fifth in Chicago and third in Honolulu.[ She won the Russian long race national title in ]cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open cou ...
at the start of 2005 then won at the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon
The Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon ( ja, 長野オリンピック記念 長野マラソン) is an annual marathon road race which takes place in mid-April in Nagano, Japan. It is an IAAF Bronze Label Road Race competition. The Nagano Mara ...
that April. She finished second to Colleen De Reuck at the River Bank Run 25K, Her form dipped at the end of the year as she was eleventh in Chicago and ranked seventh at the Las Vegas Marathon
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.[
Her 2006 season began well with a second consecutive win at the Nagano Marathon, where she recorded a season's best time of 2:28:52 hours. She was chosen for the Russian team at the 2006 European Athletics Championships, but again did not perform well in championship competition as she was 24th out of 29 finishers, although she was part of the silver medal-winning team in the European Marathon Cup. She made her fourth career appearance at the Honolulu Marathon and came fifth.][ She took a break from athletics from the 2007 season onwards. She married Evgeniy Mayorov, a former runner, and changed her competitive name from Albina ''Ivanova'' to ''Mayorova''. She also had her first child. She returned to competition in 2009 and competed in three marathons that year: she was seventh on her comeback at the ]Rome Marathon
The Rome Marathon is an annual marathon competition hosted by the city of Rome, Italy.
History
The competition has also doubled as the Italian Marathon championships on two occasions; in 1983 and 1986. The race date was shifted from the ...
(running a time of 2:30:21 hours), was fourth at the San Diego Marathon
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, and won her first race in three years at the Singapore Marathon
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History
The first competitive marathon in Singapore was held o ...
(where she ran a quick second half of the race to record the second fastest ever time on the course).
In 2010, she ran her fastest time since 2004 with a run of 2:28:06 hours at the Toronto Marathon
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, but she finished seventh overall in a high calibre field. She was also tenth place at the 2010 Boston Marathon. She came sixth at the 2011 San Diego Marathon and was fifth in her first appearance at the Istanbul Marathon
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. Mayorova improved her seven-year-old personal best at the Nagoya Women's Marathon
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, taking the title with a time of 2:23:52 hours. This earned her a place at the 2012 London Olympics
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and she reached the top ten, finishing ninth with a time of 2:25:38 hours.
Mayorova began the next year with a fourth-place finish at the 2013 Tokyo Marathon
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. She was lower down the order at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics
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marathon, coming 21st overall in her first outing at the tournament. Her best race that year came at the Yokohama Women's Marathon, where she took victory in a time of 2:25:55.
In April 2017, she was disqualified for four years for doping use.
References
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1977 births
Living people
People from Alikovsky District
Russian female long-distance runners
Russian female marathon runners
Olympic athletes of Russia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Doping cases in athletics
Russian sportspeople in doping cases
Sportspeople from Chuvashia
20th-century Russian women
21st-century Russian women