Irada Suleyman qizi Ashumova (born February 25, 1958, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a female

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

sport shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ...

. She was the first woman to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics. She competed in the

25 m Pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sp ...

competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. She won a silver medal in the 2002 World Championships. In the 2004 Olympics she also competed in

10 m Air Pistol The 10 meter air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 meter air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm (or .177) caliber air guns at a distance of 10 me ...

without winning anything. However, she was part of the

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national team that set a team world record of 1152 in this discipline in 1985. She competed in the 2012 Olympics Ashumova is a teacher at the Azerbaijan Institute of Physical Culture in Baku. She has been a scholarship holder with the

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program since November 2002. She is married to sport shooting coach Vladimir Lunev and is the mother of young shooter

Ruslan Lunev Ruslan Vladimirovich Lunev ( az, Ruslan Lunyov, born 25 July 1989) is an Azerbaijani sports shooter. He is the son of Azerbaijani Olympic bronze medalist Irada Ashumova and her husband and coach Vladimir Lunev. He competed in the men's 10 metr ...

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