Samirkhon Ababakirov
Samirkhon Ababakirov is a Kazakh taekwondo practitioner. He competed at the 2024 Olympic Games and was a gold medalist at the 2025 World University Games.
Career
He competed at the 2022 World Taekwondo Championships in Mexico in the Men's flyweight, losing to Vito Dell'Aquila in the quarter-finals. He participated at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships in Baku in the flyweight category.He reached the semi-finals at the 2024 Asian Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament in March 2024. He competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 58kg division losing to Vito Dell'Aquila.
In April 2025, Ababakirov won a silver medal at the WT President's Cup Asian Region international tournament in Tai'an, China after facing Jang Jun of South Korea in the final. He won the gold medal in the -63kg category at the 2025 World University Games in Germany, defeating Türkiye's Ömer Faruk Dayıoğlu in the final and two-time Olympic medallist Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi of Tunisia in the semi-final. He also won a bronze medal in the mixed team event at the Games.
The top seed at the 2025 World Taekwondo Championships in the men's bantamweight division, he was defeated by eventual gold medalist, Jendoubi of Tunisia.