Name Alyona Sidko | Role Cross-country skier | |
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Olympic medals Cross-Country Skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's Sprint Individual | ||
Alyona Viktorovna Sidko (Russian: Алёна Ви́кторовна Сидько́; born September 20, 1979, Krasnoyarsk) is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2000.
Sidko won a bronze medal in the Individual Sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She also won a bronze in the Team sprint (with Yuliya Chepalova) at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and had her best individual finish of 12th in the Individual sprint in 2003. Sidko has nineteen wins at various levels in distances in up to 10 km since 2002. She took the 2007-08 season off due to pregnancy but returned for the 2008-09 season.
Sidko was banned from competing at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics for breaking anti-doping rules. She had tested positive for EPO at a race in Krasnogorsk 26 December 2009 and was subsequently banned from competing in the sport for two years.