Kimia Alizadeh

Kimiya Alizadeh Zonouzi (also spelled Kimia Alizade Zonoozi, Persian: کیمیا علیزاده زنوزی‎, born July 10, 1998) is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete. Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. This made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games.[2]She also won a gold medal in the women's 63-kg class at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.[3][4] She beat London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 gold medallist Jade Jones at the 2015 World Championship to win a bronze medal.[5]She also won a silver medal two years later at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.
== Biography ==
Kimiya was born on July 10, 1998 in Karaj. Her family are Iranian Azerbaijani.[6]Her father is from Zonuz near Tabriz and her mother is from Ardabil.[1] Until after the 2016 Olympics, her last name was incorrectly recorded as Zenoorin.[1]