Tamilla Rashidovna Abassova (Azerbaijani: Tamilla Rəşid qızı Abbasova, Russian: Тамилла Рашидовна Абасова; born 9 December 1982, in Moscow) is a Russian racing cyclist who won the silver medal in the women's sprint event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the silver medal at the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the same event.
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Full name | Tamilla Rashidovna Abassova | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Moscow, Soviet Union | 9 December 1982||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||||||||
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She is of mixed Azerbaijani-Russian descent, and a practicing Baptist.[1]
References
editExternal links
edit- profile (in Russian)
- dataOlympics profile
- Tamilla Abassova at Cycling Archives (archived)