Nigora Tursunkulova
 Nigora Tursunkulova in June 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Uzbekistani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 April 1999 Jizzax, Uzbekistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nigora Tursunkulova (born 4 April 1999) is an Uzbekistani taekwondo athlete.
She represented Uzbekistan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished tied for ninth in the women's 67 kg, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where she finished eleventh in the same event.[1][2] At age 17, she was the youngest competitor at the 2016 taekwondo Olympic tournament.[3]
Tursunkulova was one of the two flag bearers for Uzbekistan, along with boxer Bakhodir Jalolov, in the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nigora Tursunkulova". olympedia.org. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Nigora Tursunkulova". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ "Welterweight (≤67 kilograms), Women". olympedia.org. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "The flagbearers for the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony" (PDF). olympics.com. IOC. 23 July 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "Flagbearers for Uzbekistan". olympedia.org. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
External links
[edit]- Nigora Tursunkulova at TaekwondoData.com
- Nigora Tursunkulova at Olympics.com
- Nigora Tursunkulova at Olympedia
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- Uzbekistani female taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Uzbekistan
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games medalists in taekwondo
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Uzbekistan
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Uzbekistani sportswomen
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