[custom_adv] Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi (born 10 July 1998) is a Taekwondo athlete. Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. [custom_adv] This made her the first woman to win a medal at a Summer Olympics. She also won a gold medal in the women's 63-kg class at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games. [custom_adv] She beat London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 gold medallist Jade Jones at the 2015 World Championship to win a bronze medal. [custom_adv] She also won a silver medal two years later at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships. [custom_adv] In January 2020, Alizadeh announced that she was leaving permanently for Europe. Explaining her defection, she stated, "I am one of the millions of oppressed women in who they have been playing with for years. [custom_adv] " She does not intend to compete for in the 2020 Summer Olympics, and expressed desire to compete for her current place of residence, Germany. [custom_adv] In the months prior to her defection a number of top sports figures had decided to stop representing — or to physically leave. In September 2019, Saeid Mollaei, who practices judo and was world champion, left for Germany after officials allegedly pressured him to throw a match to avoid competing against Israelis.