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'Blind' Paralympic Gold Medal Winner Banned After Being Found to Be Able to See
- Shahana Hajiyeva, a 25-year-old Azerbaijani Paralympic judo gold medallist, received a lifetime ban after failing a vision classification test in 2024.
- The ban followed updates to Paralympic classifications that merged categories and tightened visual impairment criteria, causing numerous re-evaluations.
- Hajiyeva failed a test before the Kazakh World Parajudo Championships, which concluded she had no vision restrictions required for the J2 category.
- The Guardian reported one in ten UK visually impaired athletes risk misclassification, highlighting criticism that new rules exclude many former categories.
- The ban forces Hajiyeva to leave her original category, reflecting wider Paralympic classification challenges and ongoing efforts to adapt rules fairly.
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From the Spanish Shame in Sydney to the Judoca He Sees: the Blacklist of Paralympic Traps
A routine medical examination has shocked paralympic sport. The test, prior to the Parajudo World Cup in Astana (Kazakhistan) last week, led to a lifetime veto for Azerbaijani judoka Shahana Hajiyeva (24 years old), gold at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2021 in the visual disability category. The reason for the suspension has been that the physical evaluation found that the young athlete does not have the visual limitations necessary to be able to …
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