Daria Beloded
Date of Birth: 10.10.2000
Daria Gennadijewna Beloded - Ukrainian judoka, Master of International Sports, bronze medalist of the 2020 Olympic Games, European champion, and two-time world champion.
Sports club. Dynamo.
Coaches. Kusnetzova Svetlana, Beloded Gennadij.
All associated materials
- 'Incredibly difficult and exhausting'. Ukrainian judoka spoke about winning at the Olympics
- Olympic Games in Tokyo. Lineup of the Ukrainian national team at the Olympics - complete list
Place of Birth. Education. Born on October 10, 2000, in Kyiv in the family of the famous judoka Gennadij Beloded and his wife Svetlana Kusnetzova. In 2017, she began studying journalism at Shevchenko University.
Sports career. Since childhood, she followed in her parents' footsteps. Her parents became her coaches.
In 2015, she achieved her first significant successes by winning the national championship in her age category, followed by the European championship and the world championship.
In March 2017, she won her first 'adult' gold medal at the Open Continental Cup in Prague.
On April 20, 2017, Daria Beloded became the European champion in Warsaw in the weight class up to 48 kilograms, defeating the Russian Irina Dolgowa in the final. On the way to the final, Daria also defeated Maria Persidskaja (Russia), Milica Nikolic (Serbia), and Eva Csernovicski (Hungary). These were only her second competitions at the adult level.
At the 2018 World Championship, Beloded started directly in the second round, where she won with a Waza-Ari victory over Distria Krasniqi (Republic of Kosovo). Then she achieved knockout victories with Ippon over Yao Xiong (China) and Galbadrakhin Otgonsétség from Kazakhstan, who defeated her at the 2017 World Championship. In the semifinals, Daria scored a Waza-Ari victory over the Olympic Rio 2016 champion Paula Pareto (Argentina). In the final, she defeated the reigning world champion Fun Tonaki (Japan) in the third minute of the fight with an Ippon, becoming world champion at the age of 17 years and 11 months. This broke the previous age record held by the Japanese Reiko Tamura, who became world champion in 1993 at the age of 18 years and 1 month. Thus, the Ukrainian became the youngest world champion in the history of judo, both among men and women.
Major achievements. Ukrainian U16 champion - 2014
U18 - World Champion 2015
U17 - Ukrainian champion 2014, 2015
U21 - Ukrainian champion 2015, 2016
U18 European champion 2015, 2016
U21 European champion - 2016
Zagreb - U18 European Open Champion 2015, Teplice - 2015 Champion, Cluj-Napoca - 2015, Zagreb - 2016, Teplice - 2016
U21 European Cup Silver Winner Kaunas - 2016, Paks - 2016
U18 - Ukrainian champion 2015, 2016, 2017
EUROPEAN OPEN Champion Prague - 2017
Bronze Medalist GRAND PRIX Hohhot - 2017
European Champion - 2017
GRAND PRIX Winner The Hague - 2017, Tunisia - 2018
World Champion - 2018
At the pre-championship world championship in 2019 in Tokyo, she won the gold medal by defeating the Japanese athlete Fun Tanaki in the final.
On July 24, 2021, Daria Beloded won the first medal for the Ukrainian national team at the Tokyo Olympics. In the weight category up to 48 kilograms, the 20-year-old athlete won the bronze medal by defeating Israeli Shira Rishon.
05.10.2023