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Kifayat Gasimova
Kifayat Gasimova (born 1 February 1986, in Kalbajar, Azerbaijan) is an Azerbaijani judoka. She competes in the women's 57 kg category (lightweight). She has won a silver medal at the 2006 European Championships and bronze medals at the 2009 World and 2007 and 2008 European Championships, and. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she lost to eventual champion, Kaori Matsumoto is a retired Japanese judoka. Career Kaori Matsumoto started judo at the age of 6. Iwai Judo Juku, the school she attended, also worked on wrestling once a week. Therefore, she brought a stance of leaning forward, similar to that of wrestling, .... References External links * * * * 1986 births Living people Azerbaijani female judoka Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Azerbaijan European Games competitors for Azerbaijan Judoka at the 2015 European Games Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in judo 20th-century Azerbaijani women 21st-century Azerbaijani women Islami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia (Republic of Dagestan) to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia and Turkey to the west, and Iran to the south. Baku is the capital and largest city. The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic proclaimed its independence from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918 and became the first secular democratic Muslim-majority state. In 1920, the country was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Azerbaijan SSR. The modern Republic of Azerbaijan proclaimed its independence on 30 August 1991, shortly before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the same year. In September 1991, the ethnic Armenian majority of the Nagorno-Karabakh region formed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |