Lyudmyla Yuriïvna Lusnikova ( uk, Людмила Юріївна Луснікова; born January 7, 1982, in Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian

judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

, who played for the extra-lightweight category (48 kg). At age eighteen, Lusnikova made her official debut at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

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, where she reached into the semi-final rounds, losing out to Japan's

Ryoko Tani is a retired Japanese female judoka and a politician. Competing in the extra-lightweight (48 kg) class, she won a record seven world titles and five Olympic medals including two golds at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. After her retirement, ...

. She qualified for the repechage bout, after finding out that her previous opponent made further into the final round. In the second round of repechage bouts, Lusnikova was defeated by China's Zhao Shunxin, who scored a yuko to win a match at the closing time of four minutes. Eight years after competing in her first Olympics, Lusnikova qualified for the second time in the women's 48 kg class at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

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. She defeated Tunisia's Chahnez M'barki in the first preliminary round, before losing out her next match, by a

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(half-point) and a

seoi nage is a shoulder throw, one of the traditional forty throws of Judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of Kodokan Judo. It is also part of the current 67 Thro ...

(shoulder throw), to South Korea's Kim Young-Ran.

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NBC Olympics Profile
Living people 1982 births Ukrainian female judoka Olympic judoka for Ukraine Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Zaporizhzhia 21st-century Ukrainian women {{Ukraine-judo-bio-stub