Sholpan Kaliyeva

Sholpan Seydullayevna Kaliyeva (Kazakh: Шолпан Сейдуллаевна Калиева; born July 5, 1980 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani judoka, who played for the half-lightweight category.[1] She is also a two-time Olympian, and a bronze medalist for her division at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea.

Sholpan Kaliyeva
Personal information
Full nameSholpan Seydullayevna Kaliyeva
Nationality Kazakhstan
Born (1980-07-05) 5 July 1980
Almaty, Kazakh SSR
Height1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
SportJudo
Event(s)52 kg
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Kazakhstan
Asian Games
2002 Busan 52 kg
Asian Championships
2001 Ulaanbaatar 52 kg
2008 Jeju City 52 kg

Kaliyeva made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she lost the first preliminary match of women's half-lightweight class (52 kg), with an ippon and a tai otoshi (body drop), to Belgium's Ilse Heylen, who eventually won the bronze medal in this event.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Kaliyeva competed for the second time in women's 52 kg class. She defeated Chinese Taipei's Shih Pei-Chun in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match, with a waza-ari awasete ippon and an uchi mata gaeshi (inner thigh counter), to North Korea's An Kum-Ae.[2] Because her opponent advanced further into the final, Kaliyeva offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating Venezuela's Flor Velázquez and Belgium's Ilse Heylen (who ousted her from the previous Olympics) in the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, she finished only in fifth place, after losing out the bronze medal match to Algeria's Soraya Haddad, who successfully scored a waza-ari (half-point) and a kibisu gaeshi (one-hand reversal), at the end of the five-minute period.[3][4]

References
  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sholpan Kaliyeva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  2. "Women's Half Lightweight (52kg/114 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  3. "Women's Half Lightweight (52kg/114 lbs) Bronze Medal Contest A". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  4. Fethi, Nazim (11 August 2008). "Soraya Haddad earns first medal for Algeria". Magharebia. Retrieved 30 December 2012.


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