Veranika Petrovna Ivanova ( be, Вераніка Пятроўна Іванова; born 24 September 1996) is a

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ian

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. She is a three-time bronze medalist at the

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. She is also a bronze medalist at the

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Career

Ivanova represented Belarus at the 2015 European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan and she won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 60kg event. Ivanova also competed in the women's freestyle 62kg event at the

2019 European Games , translation: Time for bright victories! , nations participating = 50 , athletes participating = 4,082 , events = 200 in 15 sports , opening ceremony = 21 June , closing ceremony = 30 June , officially opened ...

in Minsk, Belarus without winning a medal. She was eliminated in her first match by Johanna Mattsson of Sweden. In 2016, Ivanova won one of the bronze medals in the women's 63kg event at the

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held in Çorum, Turkey. In 2017, Ivanova competed in the women's freestyle 63kg event at the

held in Novi Sad, Serbia. She was eliminated in her first match by Yuliya Tkach of Ukraine. In 2018, at the

held in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's freestyle 62kg event. Ivanova also won one of the bronze medals in the same event at the 2021 European Wrestling Championships in Warsaw, Poland. Two weeks later, she failed to qualify for the

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at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. In October 2021, Ivanova competed in the 62kg event at the

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held in Oslo, Norway. In 2022, Ivanova lost her bronze medal match in her event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's 62kg event at the 2024 European Wrestling Championships held in Bucharest, Romania. Ivanova competed at the 2024 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan hoping to qualify for the

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in Paris, France. She was eliminated in her second match and she did not qualify for the Olympics.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanova, Veranika Living people 1996 births Place of birth missing (living people) Belarusian female sport wrestlers European Games bronze medalists for Belarus European Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games Wrestlers at the 2019 European Games European Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Belarusian women