Alyona Sidko

Alyona Viktorovna Sidko ( _ru. Алёна Викторовна Сидько; born September 20 1979, Krasnoyarsk) is a Russian cross-country skier who has competed since 2000. She won a bronze medal in the Individual Sprint at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Sidko 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 to pregnancy, but announced that she would return for the 2008-09 season.

References

*FIS Newsflash 177 on Sidko's return from pregnancy. April 30, 2008.
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