Iran (until 2020) Refugee Team (2021–2024) Bulgaria (2024-)
Sport
Taekwondo
Event
Featherweight
Medal record
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Summer Olympics
–
–
1
World Championships
–
1
1
Grand Prix
1
–
–
Asian Championships
–
–
1
European Championships
–
–
1
Team World Cup
–
1
–
Youth Olympics
1
–
–
World Junior Championships
1
–
–
Representing Iran
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro
57 kg
World Championships
2017 Muju
63 kg
2015 Chelyabinsk
57 kg
Grand Prix
2015 Moscow
57 kg
Asian Championships
2018 Ho Chi Minh City
62 kg
Youth Olympics
2014 Nanjing
63 kg
World Junior Championships
2014 Taipei
52 kg
Representing Refugee Team
European Championships
2022 Manchester
62 kg
Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi (Persian: کیمیا علیزاده زنوزی, romanized: Kīmiyā Alīzādeh Zonūzī; born 10 July 1998) is an Iranian taekwondo athlete, representing IOC Refugee Olympic Team and Bulgaria at the 2024 European Championships.[1] Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. This made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at a Summer Olympics.[2] She also won a gold medal in the women's 63-kg class at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.[3][4] She beat London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 gold medallist Jade Jones at the 2015 World Championship to win a bronze medal.[5] She also won a silver medal two years later at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.
In January 2020, Alizadeh announced that she was leaving Iran permanently for Europe.[6] Explaining her defection, she stated, "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years."[7] She stated she did not intend to compete for Iran in the 2020 Summer Olympics, and expressed desire to compete for her current place of residence, Germany.[8]
Having been licensed to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, she was finally represented by the Refugee Olympic Team.
^"Иранката Кимия Ализадех получи български паспорт и ще участва на олимпийските игри". Dnevnik (Bulgarian newspaper). 13 April 2024. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
^"روز تاریخی زنان ایران در المپیک؛ علیزاده اولین زن مدالآور از ایران شد". BBC. 19 August 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
^"Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin of Iran after Winning Women's 63-kg Taekwondo". olympic.org. 23 April 2018.
^"Tasnim News Agency - Kimia Alizadeh to Carry Iran's Flag in Youth Olympics". tasnimnews.com.
^"Olympic champion Jones suffers world championship agony". gbtaekwondo.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015.
^"Kimia Alizadeh: Iran's only female Olympic medallist defects". BBC News. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
^"Iran's sole female Olympic medalist says she's defected". Vasco Cotovio. CNN. 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
^"Runaway Iranian athlete wants to compete for Germany in Tokyo". Reuters. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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