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| Born | 26 September 2003 (age 22) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||
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Samirkhon Ababakirov (born 26 September 2003) is a Kazakh taekwondo practitioner. He competed at the 2024 Olympic Games and was a gold medalist at the 2025 World University Games. [1]
He competed at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships in Mexico in the Men's flyweight, losing to Vito Dell'Aquila in the quarter-finals. [2] He participated at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku in the flyweight category.
He reached the semi-finals at the 2024 Asian Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in March 2024. [3] He competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 58kg division losing to Vito Dell'Aquila. [4] [5]
In April 2025, Ababakirov won a silver medal at the WT President's Cup Asian Region international tournament in Tai'an, China after facing Jang Jun of South Korea in the final. [6] He won the gold medal in the -63kg category at the 2025 World University Games in Germany, defeating Türkiye's Ömer Faruk Dayıoğlu in the final and two-time Olympic medallist Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi of Tunisia in the semi-final. [7] He also won a bronze medal in the mixed team event at the Games. [8]
The top seed at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's bantamweight division, he was defeated by eventual gold medalist, Jendoubi of Tunisia. [9]
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