Kimia Alisadeh

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Kimia Alisadeh Zenoozi Taekwondo
Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Women 57g - 10.jpg

Personal information
Nationality: IranIran Iran
Birthday: July 10, 1998
Medals

Kimia Alisadeh Zenoozi ( listen ? / I ; born July 10, 1998 in Karaj ) is an Iranian Taekwondoin . By winning the bronze medal in the class up to 57 kg at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , she became the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal. Audio file / audio sample

successes

Alisadeh has taken part in international competitions in the junior sector since 2013 and has been fighting in the adult sector since 2015. Her greatest successes were winning bronze medals at the 2015 World Championships in Chelyabinsk and the 2016 Summer Olympics , when she became the first Iranian female athlete to win an Olympic medal. In 2017 she won the silver medal at the world championships in the class up to 62 kg.

On January 12, 2020, Alisadeh reported on Instagram that she had fled Iran to the Netherlands and justified this with the political situation in her home country. She described herself as "one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran". She also accused sports officials of sexism and ill treatment.

Web links

Commons : Kimia Alizadeh  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Iran's only female Olympic medalist who fled the country. derStandard.at , January 13, 2020, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ "One of Millions of Oppressed Women in Iran"
personal data
SURNAME Alisadeh, Kimia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alisadeh Zenoorin, Kimia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian taekwondo athlete
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Karaj