Yulia Kuzina

{{short description|Russian Olympic judoka}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}} {{Family name hatnote|Valeryevna|Kuzina|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox judoka | image =  | image_size =  | alt = | caption = | full_name = Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1976|10|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR | height = 1.66 m  | country = Russia | weight_class = {{nbnd}}63 kg, {{nbnd}}70 kg | rank =  | rank_ref = | dan =  | club = Dynamo Orsk  | worlds_rank = 9 | worlds_year = 1999 | worlds_weight = Women's 70 kg | regionals_type = EU | regionals_rank = 3 | regionals_year = 2004 | regionals_weight = Women's 63 kg | nationals = | olympics_rank = R16 | olympics_year = 2008 | olympics_weight = Women's 70 kg | highestranking =  | show-medals = | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport| Women's judo }} {{Medal|Country| {{RUS}} }} {{Medal|Competition| European Championships }} {{Medal|B| 2004 Bucharest | {{nbnd}}63 kg }} | updated = 19 November 2022 }}

'''Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina''' (also Yulia Kuzina, {{langx|ru|Юлия Валерьевна Кузина}}; born 25 October 1976, in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian judoka, who played for the middleweight category.<ref>{{cite sports-reference|title = Yulia Kuzina|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/yuliya-kuzina-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417215106/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/yuliya-kuzina-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|access-date = 3 January 2013}}</ref> She won a bronze medal for the 63 kg division at the 2004 European Judo Championships in Bucharest, Romania.<ref>{{cite web|title=2004 European Championships – Bucharest, Romania|url=http://www.judoinside.com/event/view/3464/|publisher=Judo Inside|access-date=3 January 2013}}</ref> Merited Master of Sport of Russia (2001)''.''

== Career == Kuzina made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's middleweight class (70 kg). She defeated Côte d'Ivoire's Lea Zahoui Blavo in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match by an ippon and an uchi mata (inner thigh throw) to South Korea's Cho Min-Sun. Kuzina offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage bouts, but she lost her first match, with three yuko and a harai makikomi (hip sweep wraparound), to Italy's Ylenia Scapin.

Eight years after competing in her first Olympics, Kuzina qualified for the women's 70 kg class, as a 31-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by placing fifth from the European Judo Championships in Lisbon.<ref>{{cite web|title=2008 European Championships – Lisbon, Portugal|url=http://www.judoinside.com/event/view/5059/|publisher=Judo Inside|access-date=3 January 2013}}</ref> Kuzina lost the preliminary round of sixteen match, by a yuko, to Hungary's Anett Mészáros, although she received two shidos (penalties) for using the non-combativity technique.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070401/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-date=21 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821140704/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070401/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Sports links}}  * {{The-Sports}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120826084829/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=60693/bio/index.html NBC 2008 Olympics profile]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kuzina, Yulia}} Category:Russian female judoka Category:Living people Category:Olympic judoka for Russia Category:Judoka at the 2000 Summer Olympics Category:Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:People from Orsk Category:1976 births Category:Sportspeople from Orenburg Oblast