Ruza Kuzieva (born 12 March 1994) is an Uzbekistani Paralympic powerlifter. She won the silver medal in the women's 61 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She won the gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2018 Asian Para Games and she is a two-time medalist at the World Para Powerlifting Championships.
Career
In 2013, Kuzieva was banned for two years after testing positive for metandienone, a banned substance. A few years later, in 2016, she tested positive for meldonium but she was not banned at that time.
Kuzieva won the bronze medal in the women's 55kg event at the 2017 World Para Powerlifting Championships held in Mexico City, Mexico. At the 2019 World Para Powerlifting Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, she won the silver medal in the women's 61kg event.
Results
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Living people
1994 births
Place of birth missing (living people) Female powerlifters Paralympic powerlifters for Uzbekistan Powerlifters at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Uzbekistani powerlifters Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for Uzbekistan Paralympic medalists in powerlifting Uzbekistani sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in weightlifting 21st-century Uzbekistani women Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games