Zaynab Dayibekova

Zaynab Dayibekova is an Uzbek sabre fencer, left-handed. She was born on 19 November 2002 in Karakalpakstan. She has fenced since 2015 and her first coach was Daurbek Jiermuratov. She studied at the Nukus branch of the Uzbekistan State University of Physical Education and Sports.

In 2018 she won bronze at the Asian Junior Championships in the UAE. In 2019 she won gold at the junior women's sabre World Cup in Tashkent, beating Nisonur Erbil of Turkey 15–12 in the final. In 2021 she won the Asia-Oceania qualifier by beating Aigerim Saribay of Kazakhstan 15–6, securing a place at the Tokyo Olympics; that year she was seventh at the Junior World Championships in Cairo.

At the Tokyo Olympics she beat Tika Aoki (15–9), Shao Yaqi (15–10) and Yun Ji-su (15–12), and lost the quarter-final to Hungary's Anna Márton 11–15. In 2023 she won gold at the Asian Championships in Wuxi; the Russian-language Wikipedia also lists her as an Asian Games team sabre champion.

In 2021 President Shavkat Mirziyoyev awarded her the «Shuhrat» medal and the «Jasorat» medal for her contribution to the Olympic movement.