Valentina Islamova (born 18 March 1992) is an ethnic

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freestyle wrestler representing

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. She is a bronze medalist at the

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and a three-time medalist, including the gold medal in 2021, at the

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. She represented Kazakhstan at the

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in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

In 2015, at the

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held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she won the gold medal in the women's 48kg event. In the same year, she represented Russia at the

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held in Baku, Azerbaijan and she won one of the bronze medals in the 48kg event. In 2019, Islamova won one of the bronze medals in the 50kg event at the

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held in Xi'an, China. She also won one of the bronze medals in the

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event at the

held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. In 2020, she repeated this result at the

held in New Delhi, India. In 2021, Islamova secured the gold medal in her event at the

held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A few months later, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the

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held in Warsaw, Poland. Islamova competed in the women's 50kg event at the

held in Tokyo, Japan where she was eliminated in her first match by Lucía Yépez of Ecuador.

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Islamova, Valentina Living people 1992 births Place of birth missing (living people) Russian female sport wrestlers Kazakhstani female sport wrestlers European Games medalists in wrestling European Games bronze medalists for Russia Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Wrestling Championships medalists Wrestlers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic wrestlers for Kazakhstan 21st-century Russian sportswomen 21st-century Kazakhstani sportswomen