Nazym Kyzaibay
Kyzaibay at the 2024 Olympic Games as depicted on a 2025 Kazakh stamp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Native name | Назым Абайқызы Қызайбай | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 September 1993 Jetıgen, Almaty Region, Kazakhstan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | Light-flyweight Flyweight Minimumweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jumabek Omirzaqov (personal) Vadim Prisyazhnyuk (national) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nazym Abaiqyzy Qyzaibai (Kazakh: Назым Абайқызы Қызайбай; born 14 September 1993) is a Kazakh amateur boxer. She is her country's first three-time world champion having won the light-flyweight gold medal in 2014 and 2016 and the minimumweight title in 2025 and also bronze medalist at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career
Kyzaibay won the light-flyweight gold medal at the 2014 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Jeju, South Korea, defeating Sarjubala Devi of India in the final.[2]
At the 2016 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, she beat China's Wang Yuyan in the light-flyweight final to win the gold medal.[3]
Kyzaibay won the flyweight gold medal at the 2021 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Dubai, defeating Mary Kom of India 3:2 in the final.[4][5]
She won a bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 2024 Paris Olympics, losing to Chinese reigning world champion and eventual gold medalist Wu Yu 4:1 in the semi-finals.[6][7]
Now competing at minimumweight, Kyzaibay beat Iuliia Chumgalakova from Russia in the final at the 2025 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Niš, Serbia, to take the gold medal and become Kazakhstan’s first three-time world boxing champion.[8][9]
References
- ^ "KYZAIBAY Nazym". Paris 2024 Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Kazakstani boxer Kyzaibay wins gold at AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships". Tengrinews.kz. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
- ^ "Six countries find the golden touch as ten World Champions are crowned in Astana at the climax of the 2016 AIBA Women's World Championships". IBA. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "Mary Kom bags silver at Asian Championships, loses 51kg category final to Kazakhstan's Nazym Kyzaibay". India Today. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "Kazakh Female Boxers Make a Splash at 2021 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championship". The Astana Times. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "Kazakh Boxer Kyzaibay Secures Bronze in Her Olympic Debut". The Astana Times. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "Nazym Kyzaibay clinches the bronze medal at the 2024 Olympic Games". Olympics Kazakhstan. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "Historic Milestone for Kazakhstan: Kyzaibay Secures Third World Boxing Gold". The Astana Times. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
- ^ "Kazakhstan's Nazym Kyzaibay claims her 3rd world champion's title in Serbia's Niš". qazinform.com. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
External links
- Nazym Kyzaibay at the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation
- Boxing record for Nazym Kyzaibay from BoxRec (registration required)
- Nazym Kyzaibay at Olympics.com
- Nazym Kyzaibay at Olympedia
- Nazym Kyzaibay at InterSportStats
- Nazym Kyzaibay at Olympic.kz
- Nazym Kyzaibay on Facebook