Irina Zaretska


Irina Zaretska is a Ukrainian and Azerbaijani karateka. She is the 2018 world champion in the women's kumite 68 kg event at the 2018 World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain.

Career

She is scheduled to represent Azerbaijan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in karate.
In 2019 she won the silver medal in the women's kumite 68 kg event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. Four years earlier she won the gold medal in this event at the 2015 European Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
At the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Baku, Azerbaijan she won the gold medal in the women's kumite 68 kg event.
At the 2018 European Karate Championships held in Novi Sad, Serbia she won the silver medal in the women's kumite 68 kg event.