Veranika Petrovna Ivanova (; born 24 September 1996) is a Belarusian freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time bronze medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. She is also a bronze medalist at the European Games.
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. She also competed in the women's freestyle 62kg event at the 2019 European Games 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 World University Wrestling Championships held in Çorum, Turkey.
In 2017, Ivanova competed in the women's freestyle 63kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Novi Sad, Serbia. She was eliminated in her first match by Yuliya Tkach of Ukraine. In 2018, at the European Wrestling Championships 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 2020 Summer Olympics at the World Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria. In October 2021, Ivanova competed in the 62kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.
In 2022, Ivanova lost her bronze medal match in her event at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Achievements
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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