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| Nationality | Azerbaijani | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 September 1987 Baku, Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Show jumping | ||||||||||||||
| Team | AZE | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic finals | Beijing 2008, London 2012 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jamal Rahimov (born 16 September 1987 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani equestrian showjumper. He has represented Azerbaijan twice at the Olympic Games: in 2008 and 2012.
He started show jumping in 1998 in Istanbul. He graduated from The Istanbul International Community School. [1] [2]
He is the first showjumper to represent Azerbaijan in the equestrian events at the Olympic Games. [1] [2]
He moved to Istanbul with his family, when he was three. He lives in Belgium. [3] [1]
He is the grandson of Hasan Hasanov, [1] [4] the former ambassador of Azerbaijan in Poland. [5]
He has a B.A. in Business Management from the Regent's Business School in London. Rahimov fluently speaks Azerbaijani, English, French, Russian and Turkish. [1] He has a good knowledge of Italian and Portuguese too. [2]
At the 2008 Olympic Games Rahimov competed in the individual jumping. He ended at the second qualification round [6] because he fell from his horse, [7] Ionesco de Brekka who was bought by Rahimov for 1,96 mln euro. [8]
At the 2012 Olympic Games Rahimov competed in the same event. He ended at the second qualification round too. [9] [10] [11]