Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Azerbaijani | ||||||||||||||
Born | 16 September 1987 Baku, Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Country | Azerbaijan | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Show jumping | ||||||||||||||
Team | AZE | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Olympic finals | Beijing 2008, London 2012 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jamal Rahimov (born 16 September 1987 in Baku) is an Azerbaijani equestrian showjumper. He has represented Azerbaijan twice at the Olympic Games: in 2008 and 2012.
He started show jumping in 1998 in Istanbul. He graduated from The Istanbul International Community School.[1][2]
He is the first showjumper to represent Azerbaijan in the equestrian events at the Olympic Games.[1][2]
He moved to Istanbul with his family, when he was three. He lives in Belgium.[3][1]
He is the grandson of Hasan Hasanov,[1][4] the former ambassador of Azerbaijan in Poland.[5]
He has a B.A. in Business Management from the Regent's Business School in London. Rahimov fluently speaks Azerbaijani, English, French, Russian and Turkish.[1] He has a good knowledge of Italian and Portuguese too.[2]
At the 2008 Olympic Games Rahimov competed in the individual jumping. He ended at the second qualification round[6] because he fell from his horse,[7] Ionesco de Brekka who was bought by Rahimov for 1,96 mln euro.[8]
At the 2012 Olympic Games Rahimov competed in the same event. He ended at the second qualification round too.[9][10][11]