Alina Lysenko

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Alina Lysenko

Lysenko in 2021
Personal information
Born	(2003-05-17) 17 May 2003 (age 23)
Cycling career
Sport	Cycling
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing Individual Neutral Athletes World Championships 2026 Shanghai Keirin 2025 Santiago Sprint European Championships 2026 Konya Keirin 2025 Heusden-Zolder Sprint 2026 Konya Sprint European Under-23 Championships 2025 Anadia 1 km time trial 2025 Anadia Keirin 2025 Anadia Individual sprint Representing  Russia World Junior Championships 2021 Cairo Sprint 2021 Cairo Keirin 2021 Cairo Team Sprint 2021 Cairo Time Trial

Alina Aleksandrovna Lysenko (Russian: Алина Александровна Лысенко; born 17 May 2003) is a Russian cyclist. She won the gold medal in the keirin at the 2026 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and 2026 UEC European Track Championships, and the sprint title at the 2024 UCI Track Champions League.

She was a bronze medalist in the women's sprint at the 2025 World Championships and 2025 and 2026 European Championships.

Career

Initially a figure skater, she took up cycling at the age of 16 years-old. In 2019, she became the Russian junior champion over 200 meters. A successful junior track cyclist, she won the Sprint and the Kierin gold medals at the 2020 UEC Junior European Track Championships in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy in October 2020.

She won four gold medals at the 2021 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Cairo, winning the keirin, team and individual sprints titles and the time trial. At the 2021 UEC Junior European Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands she retained her Sprint and Kieron titles, and also won gold medals in the Team Sprint and 500 metres. She was runner-up to Martha Bayona in the sprint event in the St Petersburg leg of the 2021 UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup.

She became the senior Russian Individual Sprint Champion in 2022. However, her progress was halted internationally that year due to the ban on Russian athletes racing internationally, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She made her international return in 2024 as an authorized neutral athlete. She competed in the Nations Cup in Hong Kong in March 2024, where she placed third in the Keirin behind Emma Finucane and Emma Hinze.

She won the sprint title at the 2024 UCI Track Champions League. In the process, she became the first rider in the history of the event to win five consecutive events.

Lysenko was a bronze medalist at the 2025 UEC European Track Championships in the women's sprint in Belgium in February 2025. In October, she was also a bronze medalist at the 2025 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Santiago, Chile, in the women's sprint.

She won the bronze medal competing at the 2026 UEC European Track Championships in Konya, Turkey in the women's sprint, losing to Emma Finucane in the semi-final but defeating Lea Sophie Friedrich in the bronze medal race. She later won the kierin gold medal at the championships. In October, she won the gold medal at the 2026 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Shanghai in the women's keirin, outsprinting Finucane and Friedrich in a photo finish.

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