Paula Ivan
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women's athletics | |||
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| Gold | Seoul 1988 | 1.500 metres | |
| Silver | Seoul 1988 | 3.000 metres | |
Paula Ivan (born July 20, 1963 in Heresti) is a former Romanian athlete and Olympic gold winner. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul she won the gold medal in the 1.500 metres race ahead of Laimutė Baikauskaitė and Tatyana Samolenko, both from Soviet. Ivan's winning time of 3:53.96 is still the Olympic record. In the 3000 m race she won the silver medal behind Samolenko and before Yvonne Murray, who won the bronze.
| Olympic champions in women's 1500 m |
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1972: Lyudmila Bragina | 1976: Tatyana Kazankina | 1980: Tatyana Kazankina | 1984: Gabriella Dorio | 1988: Paula Ivan | 1992: Hassiba Boulmerka | 1996: Svetlana Masterkova | 2000: Nouria Mérah-Benida | 2004: Kelly Holmes |
