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Nigora Tursunkulova

Uzbek taekwondo athlete (67 kg): 2018 Asian champion, Olympian in 2016 and 2020 and a flag bearer in Tokyo.

Occupation:
Athlete, Taekwondo athlete
Born:
April 4 1999(27 years old) ♈
Birthplace:
Jizzakh

Biography

Nigora Tursunkulova is an Uzbek taekwondo athlete who competes at 67 kg. She was born on 4 April 1999 in Jizzakh and is a member of the Uzbekistan national team.

In 2016 she won bronze at the Asian Championships in Manila. That year she competed at the Rio Olympics, losing the quarter-final to Farida Azizova of Azerbaijan and sharing ninth place; at 17 she was the youngest competitor in the Olympic taekwondo tournament.

In 2018 she won the Asian Championships in Ho Chi Minh City, beating Jordan's Juliana Al-Sadeq in the final, and took bronze in the 67 kg category at the Asian Games in Jakarta. In 2019 she won silver at the World Military Games in Wuhan and bronze at the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Chiba.

In 2021 she qualified for the Tokyo Olympics at the Asian qualifier in Amman. She carried Uzbekistan's flag at the opening ceremony together with boxer Bakhodir Jalolov; she lost her round-of-16 match to China's Zhang Mengyu 9–12 and finished eleventh.

Life path

  1. 2016
    Asian bronze (Manila); Rio Olympics (ninth).
  2. 2018
    Asian champion (Ho Chi Minh City); Asian Games bronze (Jakarta).
  3. 2019
    Silver at the World Military Games (Wuhan); Grand Prix bronze (Chiba).
  4. 2021
    Tokyo 2020: flag bearer, eleventh place.

Achievements

  • 🥉
    Bronze medal
    Asian Championships, Manila (2016)
  • 🥇
    Gold medal
    Asian Championships, Ho Chi Minh City (2018)
  • 🥉
    Bronze medal
    Asian Games, Jakarta (2018)
  • 🥈
    Silver medal
    World Military Games, Wuhan (2019)

Followers

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