Alevtina Ivanova () (born 22 May 1975) is a Russian long-distance runner who specialises in the marathon. She has won at the Prague International Marathon (in 2002) and the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon (in 2007 and 2008). Ivanova has competed much on the road running circuit in the United States and has won the Beach to Beacon 10K, Crim 10-Mile Race, News and Sentinel Half Marathon and America's Finest City Half Marathon. She has represented Russia internationally in cross country running: she was the best-performing European in the short race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and took part in the 2006 European Cross Country Championships. In addition to professional competition, she has acted as a pacemaker in major marathons in Japan. Career She made her debut over the classic distance in 2002 at the Prague International Marathon and she won, finishing in a time of 2:32:24. She improved her time further at the Amsterdam Marathon in October, where she ran 2:30:25 for sixth place, and then she took third place at the Honolulu Marathon. The following year she took part in the Nagano Olympic Commemorative Marathon for the first time and finished in second place behind compatriot Madina Biktagirova with a personal best time of 2:29:05. She also ran in the Dublin Marathon (taking fourth) and returned to Honolulu where she improved to second place. At the Park Forest Scenic 10 in Illinois, United States, she ran a course record of 53:18 to win the competition. In 2004, Ivanova ran at the Nagano Marathon for a second time, finishing fourth on this occasion. She started a tour of the United States and ran in a succession of races in August. She started with a third-place finish at the Beach to Beacon race, scored a victory in the Falmouth Road Race the following week, won at the America's Finest City Half Marathon the next weekend, and then beat all comers at the News and Sentinel Half Marathon in Parkersburg, West Virginia a week later. She closed the year with a fourth-place finish at the Honolulu Marathon. She won the Russian cross country running championships at the start of 2005 and entered the short race at the 2005 IAAF World Cross Country Championships. She placed tenth in the race – the best performance by an athlete outside of the dominant teams of Kenya and Ethiopia. A return to the