Ivanka Koleva (Bulgarian: Иванка Колева) (born 9 December 1968) is a Paralympian track and field athlete from Bulgaria competing mainly in throwing events in the T57 classification.
[2] In 1994 she represented Bulgaria at the 1994 IPC Athletics World Championships in Berlin, winning gold in the discus throw and bronze in the javelin.
[2] She would go on to represent her country at the following three Summer Paralympics, but despite entering another nine events, all in field athletics, she failed to repeat the success of her first games.
Her best result after 2000 were two sixth places in the 2004 and 2008 games in the shot put, but after Sydney her event was merged with other classification athletes on a points basis, greatly widening the field of competition.
[2] At the 2008 Games Koleva also entered the powerlifting tournament in the 67.5 kg event, but failed to complete a successful lift.