Iryna Aliyeva,Ruslan Mezhensky

Newsone. 4 May 2017. née Iryna Kindzerska (born 13 June 1991), is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani

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. In 2021, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's +78 kg event at the

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held in Tokyo, Japan. She is also a two-time medalist at the

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and a bronze medalist at the

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and the

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Career

She competed at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in the +78 kg event, for Ukraine. Some references point to the fact that Kindzerska was born in

Bakota, Ukraine Bakota ( uk, Ба́кота) is a historic submerged settlement of the Galicia-Volhynia, Rus Kingdom, modern-day Khmelnytskyi Oblast (oblast, province) in western Ukraine. The village lies beneath the Dniester, Dniester River and is located in the ...

. The little town of Bakota has officially disappeared in 1981 as it was submerged by waters of the Dniester Reservoir. In 2016, Kindzerska married an

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i athlete. They moved to Azerbaijan a year later and she has since represented this country. In 2017, she won a bronze medal at the

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, defeating

Tessie Savelkouls Tessie Savelkouls (born 11 March 1992) is a Dutch retired judoka. She was born in Appeltern in the Netherlands. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women's +78 kg. She also competed in the women's +78 kg event a ...

in the bronze medal match. She won bronze at the

. In 2021, she won the silver medal in her event at the

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held in Doha, Qatar.

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* 1991 births Living people People from Kamianets-Podilskyi Ukrainian female judoka Olympic judoka for Ukraine Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Azerbaijani female judoka Ukrainian emigrants to Azerbaijan Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan European Games competitors for Ukraine Judoka at the 2015 European Games Judoka at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in judo European Games bronze medalists for Azerbaijan Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in judo Olympic bronze medalists for Azerbaijan Olympic judoka for Azerbaijan Sportspeople from Khmelnytskyi Oblast {{Azerbaijan-judo-bio-stub