Tatjana Iwanowa, who lives in her birthplace, has been involved in luge sport since 2000. In the 2007/08 season she competed in the Junior Luge World Cup, where she finished fifth in the overall standings. The best individual result was a third place in the last race of the season in Calgary . In Igls , the young Russian made his debut in the 2008-09 season in the Luge World Cup and was 21 there early in her second race on the selective track of Sigulda Ivanova Eighth was and thus achieve their first top-ten finish. At the end of the season she finished 17th in the overall standings with 206 points. Also in the 2009/10 season Iwanowa made it into the top ten in the World Cup twice. She celebrated her greatest success at the European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda, when she surprisingly won the gold medal ahead of Corinna Martini and Nina Reithmayer . However, the three German favorites were not at the start because of their Olympic preparation. Ivanova was the first Russian woman to win a gold medal at a major international luge event and was also the first non-German woman to win the European women's title since Gerda Weißensteiner in 1994. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , she came in fourth, missing the bronze medal by just 8/100 seconds. At the Luge World Championships 2012 in Altenberg , she was runner-up in the single-seater and in the team. Two weeks later, on February 25, 2012, she won her first World Cup race in Paramonowo , which was also classified as a European Championship .
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won the silver medal in the team. This medal was the Russian team after doping Publications ( McLaren-Report ) in December 2017 revoked and Ivanova locked together with other Russian athletes for life for the Olympics. In February 2018, the International Sports Court of Justice reversed the withdrawal of their medal due to insufficient evidence and lifted the ban.
Russia
Sigulda
Lillehammer
Pyeongchang
innsbruck
Whistler
Altenberg
