Valentina Islamova

Valentina Islamova (born 18 March 1992) is an ethnic Russian freestyle wrestler representing Kazakhstan. She is a bronze medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a three-time medalist, including the gold medal in 2021, at the Asian Wrestling Championships. She represented Kazakhstan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Career

In 2015, at the Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, she won the gold medal in the women's 48kg event. In the same year, she represented Russia at the 2015 European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan and she won one of the bronze medals in the 48kg event.

In 2019, Islamova won one of the bronze medals in the 50kg event at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Xi'an, China. She also won one of the bronze medals in the 50kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. In 2020, she repeated this result at the Asian Wrestling Championships held in New Delhi, India. In 2021, Islamova secured the gold medal in her event at the Asian Wrestling Championships held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A few months later, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the 2021 Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland.

Islamova competed in the women's 50kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan where she was eliminated in her first match by Lucía Yépez of Ecuador.

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