Tatiana Ivanovna Ivanova (russian: Татьяна Ивановна Иванова; born 16 February 1991) is a Russian

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r who has competed since 2000. She won the women's singles event at the

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in 2010, 2012, 2018 and 2020. Ivanova debuted in the World Cup in the 2008–09 season, finishing 17th.

Career

She competed at her first Olympics in

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, where she finished fourth. The same year Ivanova won the

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. Two years later the Russian finished second in the

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in Altenberg and successfully defended her title at the

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. At the

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in Sochi, originally Ivanova, together with

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, Alexander Denisyev, and

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won the silver medal in the team relay. In December 2017, she was one of eleven Russian athletes who were banned for life from the Olympics by the

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, after doping offences at the

. Her results at the Olympics were annulled. In January 2018, she successfully appealed against the lifetime ban as well as annulment of result at the court of arbitration for sport.

World Cup podiums

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