Olqa İsmayılova

Olqa İsmayılova

Olqa İsmayılova (2012)
To person
Date of birth	September 16, 1985
nation	Azerbaijan
discipline	Train (short term)
End of career	2016
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2011 - 500 meter time trial UEC European Rail Championships 2012 - Sprint 2010 - Keirin
Last updated: November 1st, 2018

Olqa İsmayılova , b. Olga Yuryevna Panarina ( Russian Ольга Юрьевна Исмаилова (Панарина) , Belarusian Вольга Юр'еўа Ісмаілава (Панарына) / Wolha Jurjeuna Ismailawa (Panaryna); * 16th September 1985 in Kharkiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Azeri , former Belarusian Track cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines.

Olqa İsmayılova has been internationally active since the 2007/2008 World Cup season , initially she started under her maiden name Olga Panarina . She competes in the 500-meter time trial , keirin and sprint disciplines and has several places in the top ten. She won a national Belarusian track cycling title at least nine times.

At the UCI Track World Championships in 2009 İsmayılova was fourth in the sprint. In 2010 she finished third in the time trial at the World Track Championships, and in the autumn of the same year she became European champion in the Keirin. The following year she became world champion in the 500 m time trial in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands ; in the Keirin she was runner-up in the world champion and in the sprint she finished fourth.

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London İsmayılova finished eighth in the sprint. At the UEC European Track Championships in 2012 , she was European sprint champion and also won the time trial at the second round of the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow .

İsmayılova has been racing for the Azerbaijani Cycling Federation since 2014, and in the same year and 2015 she became national sprint champion.

In 2016, Olqa İsmayılova was nominated to participate in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . She started in Sprint (18th) and Keirin (21st).

successes

2010

• World Championship - Keirin, 500 meter time trial
• European Champion - Keirin

2011

• World champion - 500 meter time trial
• World Championship - Keirin
• Track cycling world cup in Astana - 500 meter time trial
• European Championship - Sprint
• Belarusian champion - sprint, keirin, 500 meter time trial, team sprint (with Marija Lowinowa )

2012

• Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow - 500 meter time trial
• European Champion - Sprint
• Belarusian champion - sprint, keirin, 500 meter time trial, team sprint (with Tazzjana Sharakova )

2014

• Azerbaijani Champion - Sprint

2015

• Azerbaijani Champion - Sprint

2016

• Azerbaijani champion - sprint, keirin, 500 meter time trial

Web links

Commons : Olqa İsmayılova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Olqa İsmayılova in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Olqa İsmayılova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• the-sports.org: "Olga Panarina"