Friba Razayee

Friba Rezayee (Persian: فریبا رضایی‎) (born February 9, 1987) is an Afghan judoka. In 2004, along with Robina Muqimyar, she was the first Afghan woman to participate in the Olympic Games.

Rezayee fled Afghanistan for Pakistan during the Taliban's rule of the country. After her return with her family to Afghanistan in 2002, she moved in boxing and was the first Afghan female boxer. But due to lack of other female boxers in her team, she then moved into judo, and began training for the Olympic Games at a girls judo club sponsored by Danish Refugee Council. At the 2004 Summer Olympics Razayee was classified as a middleweight. In the first round on 18 August she was paired with Spaniard Cecilia Blanco and succumbed after 45 seconds. Friba Rezayee is the younger sister of Shaima Rezayee, a popular TV presenter who was killed in 2005 in her hometown Kabul.