Alpine skier Pleshkova took 19th place in the supergiant at the Olympics in Italy.

Alpine skier Yulia Pleshkova competed in the supergiant competition at the 2026 Olympic Games in Italy on Thursday, February 12. She covered the distance in 1 minute, 26.32 seconds and took 19th place. The athlete competed in a neutral status, without using national symbols.

Italian alpine skier Federica Brignone won the race (1 minute 23.41 seconds), Frenchwoman Romana Miradoli took second place (+0.41 seconds), Austrian Cornelia Hutter finished third (+0.52 seconds).

Earlier at the 2026 Olympics, Pleshkova finished 22nd in the downhill, clocking 1:39.69 — 3.59 seconds worse than the winner. The start of the Russian athlete was postponed due to the fall of Andorran alpine skier Cande Moreno, who needed medical help on the slope.

Pleshkova was born on May 17, 1997 in Yelizovo, Kamchatka, into the family of Mikhail and Tatiana Pleshkov. Her older brother Alexei inspired her to take up big-time sports.

Pleshkova made her debut at the Russian Championship in 2014. In 2016, she won the Russian Cup in downhill and took 20th place at the Junior World Cup in combination, and a year later she took bronze in the parallel team race at the Universiade. In 2018, Pleshkova won the bronze of the junior World Cup in downhill and the gold of the national championship in the same discipline. In 2021, she won the gold of the Russian Supergiant Championship and the European Cup stage.

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After the suspension of Russian athletes in 2022, Pleshkova focused on domestic competitions, where she dominated the Russian Cup. In 2023 - gold in parallel slalom; in 2024 — in super combined, slalom and supergiant, plus victory in giant slalom at the Spartakiad. In 2025, the Czech Republic added gold in downhill and supergiant, as well as silver in giant slalom.

Pleshkova's first international start after her suspension took place on January 10, 2026 — she took 51st place in the downhill at the World Cup in Austria. Four days later, he took third place in the supergiant at the FIS tournament in Germany. And on January 17, at the World Cup in Italy, the athlete finished 40th in the downhill and 48th in the supergiant.

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