Yulia Kuzina

Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina (also Yulia Kuzina, Russian: Юлия Валерьевна Кузина; born October 25, 1976 in Orsk, Orenburg Oblast) is a Russian judoka, who played for the middleweight category.[1] She won a bronze medal for the 63 kg division at the 2004 European Judo Championships in Bucharest, Romania.[2]

Yulia Kuzina

Personal information
Full name	Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina
Nationality	Russia
Born	(1976-10-25) 25 October 1976 Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport	Judo
Event(s)	73 kg
Club	Dynamo Orsk
Medal record Women's judo Representing  Russia European Judo Championships 2004 Bucharest 63 kg

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.[3] 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.[4]