Kifayat Gasimova (born 1 February 1986, in

Kalbajar Kalbajar ( az, Kəlbəcər , ) is a city and the capital of the Kalbajar District of Azerbaijan. Located on the Tartar river valley, it is away from the capital Baku. The city had a population of 7,246 before its capture by Armenian forces on ...

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 th ...

) is an Azerbaijani

judoka is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...

. She competes in the women's 57 kg category (lightweight). She has won a silver medal at the 2006 European Championships and bronze medals at the 2009 World and

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and 2008 European Championships, and. 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 ...

, she lost to eventual champion,

Kaori Matsumoto is a retired Japanese judoka. Career Kaori Matsumoto started judo at the age of 6. Iwai Judo Juku, the school she attended, also worked on wrestling once a week. Therefore, she brought a stance of leaning forward, similar to that of wrestling, ...

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* * * * 1986 births Living people Azerbaijani female judoka Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for Azerbaijan European Games competitors for Azerbaijan Judoka at the 2015 European Games Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in judo 20th-century Azerbaijani women 21st-century Azerbaijani women Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Azerbaijan {{Azerbaijan-judo-bio-stub