Anastasiia Velozo
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Anastasiia Velozo (Ukrainian: Анастасія Велозо; née Miastkovska; born 2 April 1996)[1] is a Ukrainian (until 2023) and Chilean (since 2023) karateka who specializes in kumite. Representing the country of her birth, she is a gold medalist in the European Karate Championships. After switching her nationality to Chile, she became a medalist at the World Karate Championships, becoming the first woman from that country to win a medal there.
Career
Anastasiia Miastkovska is originally from Lviv, Ukraine.[2] In 2017, she won a gold medal in the women's team kumite event at the European Karate Championships held in İzmit, Turkey.[3][4] In 2018, Miastkovska met Chilean karateka Camilo Velozo at a training camp in Ukraine, and in 2019, they married and she changed her surname to Velozo.[5] In 2020, Velozo moved to Chile.[2] In 2023, she became a naturalized Chilean citizen and represented the country at the Pan American Karate Championships in San José, Costa Rica (where she finished fifth) and later at the Pan American Games.[2][6][4]
In 2025, at the World Karate Championships held in Cairo, Egypt, Velozo won a bronze medal in the -68 kg category and became the first Chilean female karateka to win a medal at a senior world championship.[6] She defeated Elena Quirici of Switzerland 12–7.[6]
References
- ↑ "40th EKF Junior&Cadet Karate Champ" (PDF). European Karate Federation. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 "¿Quién es Anastasiia Velozo? la chilena-ucraniana del karate panamericano". 24horas.cl (in Spanish). 5 November 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
- ↑ "2017 European Karate Championships Results Book" (PDF). Sportdata. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 August 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- 1 2 Claudio Ortega (15 August 2023). "La historia de la ucraniana que fue campeona europea y ahora compite por Chile de cara a los Panamericanos". Emol (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- ↑ Cornejo, Aquiles (23 July 2023). "El matrimonio karateca que une a Chile y Ucrania en los Juegos Panamericanos". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 December 2025.
- 1 2 3 Zavala, Jaime (1 December 2025). "Anastasia Velozo hace historia en El Cairo: primer podio femenino chileno en Mundial adulto de Karate". BioBioChile - La Red de Prensa Más Grande de Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 December 2025.