Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina (also Yulia Kuzina, russian: Юлия Валерьевна Кузина; born 25 October 1976, in
Orsk,
Orenburg Oblast
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) is a Russian
judoka
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, who played for the middleweight category. She won a bronze medal for the
63 kg division at the
2004 European Judo Championships
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in
Bucharest, Romania.
Career
Kuzina made her official debut for the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in
Sydney
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, where she competed in the
women's middleweight class (70 kg). She defeated Côte d'Ivoire's Lea Zahoui Blavo in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match by an
ippon and an
uchi mata (inner thigh throw) to South Korea's
Cho Min-Sun. Kuzina offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts, but she lost her first match, with three
yuko and a
harai makikomi
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(hip sweep wraparound), to Italy's
Ylenia Scapin
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She won two Olympic medals in different weight classes, in 1996 and 2000
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.
Eight years after competing in her first Olympics, Kuzina qualified for the
women's 70 kg class, as a 31-year-old, at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
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, by placing fifth from the
European Judo Championships
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in
Lisbon
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. Kuzina lost the preliminary round of sixteen match, by a yuko, to Hungary's
Anett Mészáros, although she received two shidos (penalties) for using the non-combativity technique.
References
External links
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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
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Russian female judoka
Living people
Olympic judoka for Russia
Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
People from Orsk
1976 births
Sportspeople from Orenburg Oblast