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Yulia Kuzina
Personal information
Full name	Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina
Born	25 October 1976 (age 48); Orsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russian SFSR
Occupation	Judoka
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Judo
Weight class	‍–‍63 kg, ‍–‍70 kg
Club	Dynamo Orsk
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games	R16 (2008)
World Champ.	9th (1999)
European Champ.	(2004)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing Russia
European Championships
Profile at external databases
IJF	52717, 53151
JudoInside.com	8630
	Updated on 19 November 2022

Yuliya Valeryevna Kuzina (also Yulia Kuzina, Russian: Юлия Валерьевна Кузина; born 25 October 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] 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.^[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]