Career
She is also a two-time Olympian, and a bronze medalist for her division at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South of Korea. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Kaliyeva competed for the second time in women"s 52 kg class. She defeated Chinese Taipei"s Shih Pei-Chun in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match, with a waza-ari awasete ippon and an uchi mata gaeshi (inner thigh counter), to North of Korea"s An Kum-Ae.
Unfortunately, she finished only in fifth place, after losing out the bronze medal match to Algeria"s Soraya Haddad, who successfully scored a waza-ari (half-point) and a kibisu gaeshi (one-hand reversal), at the end of the five-minute period.
