Gulnoza Matniyazova

Gulnoza Matniyazova was born on 10 August 1994 in the Khorezm region (Pichokchi). An Uzbekistani judoka, she competes in the -70 kg class. As a youth she won the Asian Cadet Championships (2008, -52 kg) and Asian Junior Championships (2011, -70 kg), took silver at the 2009 World Cadet Championships and competed at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games.

At senior World Championships she placed 7th in 2014 and 2022 and won mixed-team bronze in Budapest in 2021. At the Asian Championships she won gold in 2021 (Bishkek), silver in 2015, 2019 and 2022 and bronze in 2013 and 2016. At the Asian Games she took -70 kg bronze (2018, 2023 in Hangzhou) and mixed-team silver in 2023.

She has Grand Slam bronzes from Tashkent and Tbilisi (2021), Ulaanbaatar (2022) and Tashkent (2023), and Grand Prix gold in Tashkent in 2016 and 2017. She won the Islamic Solidarity Games at -70 kg in 2017 (Baku) and 2021 (Konya) and took Military World Games bronze in Wuhan in 2019. She competed at the Olympics in 2016 (Rio), 2020 (Tokyo) and 2024 (Paris).