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| Born | February 25, 1958 (age 66) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Irada Suleyman qizi Ashumova (born February 25, 1958, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a female Azerbaijani sport shooter. She was the first woman to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics.[1]
She competed in the 25 m Pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. She won a silver medal in the 2002 World Championships.
In the 2004 Olympics she also competed in 10 m Air Pistol without winning anything. However, she was part of the Soviet national team that set a team world record of 1152 in this discipline in 1985.
She competed in the 2012 Olympics [2]
Ashumova is a teacher at the Azerbaijan Institute of Physical Culture in Baku. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002. She is married to sport shooting coach Vladimir Lunev and is the mother of young shooter Ruslan Lunev.
| Olympic results | |||||
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| Event | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2012 | |
| 25 metre pistol | 15th 576 |
31st 569 |
 Bronze588+99.3 |
23rd 578 | |
| 10 metre air pistol | 10th 381 |
45th 229 (DNF) |
8th 386+95.4 |
39th 372 | |
