Zhanar Zhanzunova

{{Short description|Kazakhstani judoka (born 1985)}}

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| nationality = Kazakhstani

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| birth_place = Kyzylorda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union

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{{MedalSport | Women's judo}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}}

{{MedalSilver|2007 Kuwait City | 70 kg }}

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Zhanar Zhanzunova ({{langx|kk|Жанар Жанзунова}}, Janar Janzunova; born July 16, 1985, in Kyzylorda) is a Kazakhstani judoka, who played for the middleweight category.{{cite sports-reference|title = Zhanar Zhanzunova|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/zh/zhanar-zhanzunova-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074135/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/zh/zhanar-zhanzunova-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 30 December 2012}} She won a silver medal for her division at the 2007 Asian Judo Championships in Kuwait City, Kuwait, and bronze at the 2008 Asian Judo Championships in Jeju City, South Korea.

Zhanzunova represented Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's middleweight class (70 kg). Unfortunately, she lost the first preliminary match to Colombia's Yuri Alvear, who successfully scored an ippon and a soto makikomi (outer wraparound), at a fastest possible time of twenty-one seconds.{{cite web|title=Women's Middleweight (70kg/154 lbs) Preliminaries|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/judo/resultsandschedules/rsc=JUW070509/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|access-date=30 December 2012}}