Career
She is also a three-time medalist for her division at the Asian Judo Championships (2004 in Almaty, 2005 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and 2007 in Kuwait City, Kuwait). Abikeyeva represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women"s half-heavyweight class (78 kg). She lost the first preliminary round match, with an ippon and a yoko shiho gatame (side four quarter hold), to Cuba"s Yalennis Castillo.
Unfortunately, she finished only in ninth place, after losing out the second repechage bout to France"s Stéphanie Possamaï, who successfully scored an ippon and a juji gatame (back lying perpendicular armbar), at four minutes and twenty-two seconds.