Yulia Kuzina

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Valeryevna and the family name is Kuzina.
Yulia Kuzina
Personal information
Full nameYuliya Valeryevna Kuzina
Born (1976-10-25) 25 October 1976 (age 48)
Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR
OccupationJudoka
Height1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
CountryRussia
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍63 kg, ‍–‍70 kg
ClubDynamo Orsk
Achievements and titles
Olympic GamesR16 (2008)
World Champ.9th (1999)
European Champ.Bronze (2004)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Russia
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Bucharest ‍–‍63 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF52717, 53151
JudoInside.com8630
Updated on 19 November 2022

Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina (also Yulia Kuzina, Russian: Юлия Валерьевна Кузина; born 25 October 1976, in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian judoka, who played for the middleweight category.[1] She won a bronze medal for the 63 kg division at the 2004 European Judo Championships in Bucharest, Romania.[2] Merited Master of Sport of Russia (2001).

Career

Kuzina made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 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 (hip sweep wraparound), to Italy's Ylenia Scapin.

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 in Beijing, by placing fifth from the European Judo Championships in Lisbon.[3] 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.[4]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yulia Kuzina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  2. ^ "2004 European Championships – Bucharest, Romania". Judo Inside. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  3. ^ "2008 European Championships – Lisbon, Portugal". Judo Inside. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 3 January 2013.