Varvara Massyagina

Varvara Massyagina
Personal information
Full name Varvara Gennadyevna Masyagina
Nationality  Kazakhstan
Born (1977-08-25) 25 August 1977
Almaty, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 78 kg
Medal record
Women's judo
Competitor for  Kazakhstan
Asian Games
1998 Bangkok 78 kg
Asian Championships
2003 Jeju City 78 kg
2004 Almaty 78 kg

Varvara Gennadyevna Masyagina (Kazakh: Варвара Геннадьевна Масягина; born August 25, 1977 in Almaty) is a Kazakh judoka, who competed in the women's half-heavyweight category.[1] She picked up five medals in her career, including two silvers each from the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand and the 2003 Asian Judo Championships in Jeju City, South Korea, and later represented her nation Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics.[2][3]

Massyagina qualified for the Kazakh squad in the women's half-heavyweight class (78 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by placing third and receiving a berth from the Asian Championships in Almaty.[2][4] She lost her opening match to a seventeen-year-old U.S. judoka Nicole Kubes, who scored an ippon victory and quickly subdued her on the tatami with a harai makikomi (hip sweep wraparound) at eight seconds.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Varvara Massyagina". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Лучший Подарок для Масягиной – Медалй" [Medal will be the best gift for Massyagina] (in Kazakh). Gazeta.kz. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "В Корее у Варвары все получилось" [In Korea, Varvara is fully prepared] (in Kazakh). Gazeta.kz. 6 November 2003. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Масягина едет в Афины" [Massyagina will travel to Athens] (in Kazakh). Gazeta.kz. 17 May 2004. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "Judo: Women's Half-Heavyweight (78kg/172 lbs) Round of 32". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ Dalabaeva, Alla (19 August 2004). "Олимпиада-2004: Пять Дней Позади" [Olympics 2004: Five days behind] (in Kazakh). Gazeta.kz. Retrieved 6 December 2014.

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