Plan Uzbekistan first participated at the Olympic Games

Lina Cheryazova

Lina Anatolyevna Cheryazova (1 November 1968 – 23 March 2019) was a Uzbek freestyle skier who competed in aerials. She won a bronze medal at the 1990 European Championship and a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships before winning the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics with a score of 166.84. So far she is the only athlete to have won a Winter Olympic medal while representing the Republic of Uzbekistan. Her achievements earned her the title of Honored Athlete of the Republic of Uzbekistan.^[2]

Cheryazova on a 2001 stamp of Uzbekistan