Liudmila Udobkina (born in Oryol) is a Russian

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Career

Udobkina competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Russia. She teamed with driver Olga Stulneva as the Russia-1 sled in the two-woman event, finishing 9th. As of April 2014, her best showing at the

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is 11th, in

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. Udobkina made her

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debut in November 2004. As of April 2014, her best World Cup finish is 4th, coming in a team event at Konigssee in 2011-12. Her best finish in an Olympic discipline is 5th, which she achieved three times. In December 2017, she was one of eleven Russian athletes who were banned for life from the Olympics by the

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, after doping offences at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

References

1984 births Living people Olympic bobsledders of Russia Sportspeople from Oryol Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Russian female bobsledders Doping cases in bobsleigh Russian sportspeople in doping cases {{Russia-bobsleigh-bio-stub