Zohra Aghamirova ( az, Zöhrə Ağamirova; born 8 August 2001) is an Azerbaijani

rhythmic gymnast Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which gymnasts perform on a floor with an apparatus: hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon. The sport combines elements of gymnastics, dance and calisthenics; gymnasts must be strong, flexible, agile, dexterous and coordi ...

. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Career

Junior

Aghamirova started the season at Miss Valentine in Tartu, where she won bronze medal in All-around and qualified to three finals. She won silver medal with Clubs and brone medals with Rope and Ball. She won gold medal in All-around at the 2016 Azerbaijani Junior National Championships. She also won gold with Rope, silver with Ball and bronze with Clubs. She competed at the 2016 European Championships in

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, where she and her teammates Ilaha Mammadova and Veronika Hudis won 8th place in Team competition. She placed 15th in Clubs and 37th in Ball Qualifications.

Senior

Aghamirova won the gold medal in the team competition with

Marina Durunda Marina Sergeyevna Durunda (born 12 June 1997) ( az, Marina Sergey qızı Durunda;russian: Марина Сергеевна Дурунда) is a retired Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani individual rhythmic gymnast. Durunda started her senior career in 2 ...

and

Zhala Piriyeva Zhala Piriyeva ( az, Jalə Azad qızı Piriyeva; born 10 May 2000) is an Azerbaijani individual rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2016 Azeri National champion and three-time (2013-2015) junior Azerbaijani national champion. Career Junior Piri ...

at the

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which were hosted in her home country

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. She placed twenty-seventh in all-around qualifications at the 2017 World Championships in

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, where she made her World Championship debut. In 2018, Aghamirova competed at the

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

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, where she finished eighteenth in all-around. At the 2018 World Championships in

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she qualified to individual all-around final, finishing in twenty-fourth place. In June 2019, Aghamirova represented

at the

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where she finished eighth place in the all-around competition. In July, she took part in the

2019 Summer Universiade ) , Nations participating = 118 , Athletes participating = 5,971 , Events = 220 , Sports = 18 , Opening ceremony = 3 July , Closing ceremony = 14 July , Officially opened by = President Se ...

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and won a silver medal in

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. She qualified to all four apparatus finals, and she won another silver medal in

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. She competed at the 2019 World Championships in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

, where she finished sixteenth place in the all-around final. At the

2020 Olympic Games The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

, Aghamirova finished eighteenth in the qualification round for the individual all-around.

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* * 2001 births Living people Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnasts Universiade medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade Universiade silver medalists for Azerbaijan European Games competitors for Azerbaijan Gymnasts at the 2019 European Games Olympic gymnasts for Azerbaijan Gymnasts at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Azerbaijani women Competitors at the 2022 World Games {{Azerbaijan-sport-bio-stub