At the Park Forest Scenic 10 in Illinois, United States, she ran a course record of 53:18 to win the 10-mile (16 km) competition.
She started with a third-place finish at the Beach to Beacon race,[4] scored a victory in the 7-mile (11 km) Falmouth Road Race the following week,[5] won at the America's Finest City Half Marathon the next weekend,[6] and then beat all comers at the News and Sentinel Half Marathon in Parkersburg, West Virginia a week later.
[14] She also won the News and Sentinel Half Marathon for a second time in August 2006,[7] and also took the title at the Crim 10-Mile Race in Flint, Michigan that month.
[16] She won the 2007 Nagano Marathon, building up a large lead in the final stages to score a personal best of 2:27:49, as well as a win over Dire Tune, among others.
[18] The following year's Nagano Marathon brought even further improvement for the Russian as she not only defended her title, but knocked over a minute off her best with a run of 2:26:39.
[19] Ivanova led the 2009 Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon for much of the race, but she was eventually overhauled by Caroline Rotich.
[22] She won the Saint Petersburg Marathon in June then returned to Yokohama for its new November timing, but was outside of the top ten.