Yanina Kuskova
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Uzbekistan
.jpg) Kuskova prior to the women's road race at the 2023 UCI Road World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Yanina Kuskova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 December 2001 Uzbekistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Uzbekistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2022–2024 | Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025–2026 | Laboral Kutxa–Fundación Euskadi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yanina Kuskova (born 11 December 2001) is an Uzbekistani professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for the Uzbekistan national team.[1] She has won the Uzbekistan National Time Trial Championships twice (2020 and 2021) and the Uzbekistan National Road Race Championships four times (2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024).[3]
Kuskova won her first national titles in 2020, winning both the Uzbekistan National Time Trial Championship and the Uzbekistan National Road Race Championship.[3]
Kuskova was on a team camp training when they rode the Germenica Grand Prix Road Race WE as part of the national team in 2021. Kuskova finished in tenth place as the best young rider.[4] In March 2022 Kuskova took her first international win at the Grand Prix Mediterranean WE.[5] During the 2022 Asian Road Cycling Championships Kuskova rode the Under-23 time trial with a time of 34:08 beating the second place by 2:32 and securing a gold medal.[6] Uzbekistan earned three medals at the 2022 Asian Track Cycling Championships all of them earned by Kuskova.[7] After the Asian Cycling Championships Kuskova did not start a UCI road event until the Ladies Tour of Estonia in late May.[8] The race ended with a solo winner and a bunch sprint for second to eleventh, with Kuskova finishing in eleventh 1:04 down on the winner.[9]
In 2024, Kuskova took part in the 2024 Tour de France Femmes with the Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team, finishing 47th overall.[10] She took won the road race at the Uzbek national championships for the fourth time.[3]
In November 2024, Kuskova signed with Laboral Kutxa–Fundación Euskadi for the 2025 season.[11] In March 2026, Kuskova announced that she had chosen to leave Laboral Kutxa–Fundación Euskadi to allow her to compete more regularly for the Uzbekistan national team.[12]
