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) is a

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. She won the silver medal in the women's 62 kg event at the

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held in Tokyo, Japan. She also competed in the women's 63 kg event at the

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, the first woman to wrestle for Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics. A legal dispute threatened to prevent Tynybekova from competing in London, but the case was delayed until after the Games. Tynybekova was eliminated in the 1/8 finals by

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. As of summer 2016, Tynybekova has competed in four World Championships (her highest finish being seventh in 2013) and four Asian Championships, finishing no lower than third and winning the 58 kg class in 2016. In the

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, Tynybekova won her octofinal and quarterfinal, then lost her semifinal to the eventual silver medalist, Russia's

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. She then lost the second bronze medal match to

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of India (see

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). On 13 May 2017, Aisuluu Tynybekova received a gold medal in the Asian champion in 2017 (

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, India). On 23 August 2017, she received bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships in

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, France, by defeating Ms. Rong Ningning (China), in 58 kg wrestling. In 2020, she won the gold medal in the 62 kg event at the

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held in Belgrade, Serbia.

Personal life

Aisuluu Tynybekova was born the 4th of May, 1993, in the village of Mailuu-Suu in the Jalal-Abad oblast in the South-Western part of Kyrgyzstan. At 15, Tynybekova discovered the sport of freestyle wrestling, and four years later she became the first woman to wrestle for Kyrgyzstan in the Olympics. Prior to her career in wrestling, she played basketball and trained in the martial art karate. In 2009, she joined the Kyrgyz national wrestling team and as soon as 2013 she was named one of the Best Athletes of the Year in Kyrgyzstan. Additionally, she held the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Kyrgyzstan in 2015. She also studied economics at the Kyrgyz State Technical University in Bishkek.

Career

Aisuluu started her international wrestling career in the year 2009. She went on to become Asian Junior and Cadet championship.

2012

2012 London Olympics

In 2012 she became the first ever female wrestler from Kyrgyzstan to qualify for Olympics by winning Silver medal at Asian Olympic qualification tournament in the 63 kg women freestyle wrestling event. She was eliminated from the tournament by

. Later in the year she went on to win Bronze at the Spain Open held in Madrid.

2013

Aisuluu came back stronger from the Olympic loss in the year 2013. She won the bronze medal in the 59 kg category. Later in the year she proceeded to win bronze at Klippan Ladies Open in Sweden. This was followed by her competing in World Wrestling Championship in Budapest, Hungary. She won defeated her opponents in round of 32 and round of 16 only to be stopped by eventual silver medalist

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. As Yusein reached finals she got the opportunity to compete for bronze medal. However, she was eliminated by Tetyana Lavrenchuk in repechage round 2. In this year she was also named as the best Female Athlete of Kyrgyzstan.

2014

2014 turned out to be an important year for Aisuluu. She started the Years campaign in at Asian wrestling championship in Astana and won the silver medal there. She in the tournament defeated Japanese opponent Haruka Sato. She however, failed to win the gold medal because as she lost to Zhang Lan of China in the finals. This was followed by a silver at Grand Prix of Germany before entering the world championship. There she was eliminated in the round of 16 by Alli Ragan of the US.

Asian Games 2014

After losing the opening round to eventual Silver medalist,

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, she proceeded to win the bronze medal in the repechage rounds by defeating Jong In-sun.

2015

Aisuluu continued her strong performance following Asian Games. In 2015 she won a silver medal at the Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix. This was followed by her repeating her silver medal at the Asian Championship in 2015 after losing to 10-time-world champion Kaori Icho in finals. She produced strong performances in Spain and Golden Grand prix by winning silver in each. In the 2015 world championship she was defeated in the first round by eventual silver medalist

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. As Olli reached finals, Aisuluu got repechage rounds. She won the first round against

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but lost to Johanna Mattsson in the next round.

2016

Aisuluu had a fiery opening in 2016. She came in her strongest form as she won the gold medal at the 2016 Asian Championship. This was followed by another strong gold at the FILA Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament. She before entering the Olympics won a silver at the Poland Open.

2016 Rio Olympics

Aisuluu was a medal prospect for her country at the Rio Games. She defeated

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in round of 16 and

in round of 8 before losing to

in the semi-final. She got her chance to win bronze medal but lost to

2020

In 2020, she won the gold medal in the women's 62 kg event at the

held in Belgrade, Serbia.

2021

In 2021, she won the gold medal in her event at the

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held in Warsaw, Poland. Aisuluu Tynybekova takes Silver Medal in the women's 62 kg, becoming the first-ever woman from Kyrgyzstan to win a silver medal at the

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2022

In 2022, she competed at the Yasar Dogu Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey. She won the gold medal in the 62 kg event at the

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held in Konya, Turkey. She lost her bronze medal match in the 62kg event at the

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held in Belgrade, Serbia.

2023

She won the gold medal in her event at the 2023 Ibrahim Moustafa Tournament held in Alexandria, Egypt. In June, Tynybekova lost to Russia's Alina Kasabieva at Poddubny wrestling league 5 held in

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References

External links

* * https://unitedworldwrestling.org/match?options odeId3067&options renaIdc8abf31c-874f-11e7-b4ee-0800275a62ce * https://unitedworldwrestling.org/event/asian-championships-0#&gid=1&pid=42 * https://www.azattyk.org/a/28693174.html?nocache=1 (in Kyrgyz) * https://24.kg/sport/51652_aysuluu_tyinyibekova_chempionka_azii_poborbe/ (in Russian) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tynybekova, Aisuluu 1993 births Living people Kyrgyzstani female sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Kyrgyzstan Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bishkek Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 2010 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2014 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2018 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 2022 Asian Games Universiade medalists in wrestling Central Asia Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Kyrgyzstan Asian Games bronze medalists for Kyrgyzstan Universiade medalists for Kyrgyzstan World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade Asian Wrestling Championships medalists Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in wrestling Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Kyrgyzstan Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in wrestling Olympic silver medalists for Kyrgyzstan 21st-century Kyrgyzstani women 21st-century Kyrgyzstani people Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games