Irada Ashumova

Irada Suleyman qizi Ashumova (born February 25, 1958, in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR) is a female Azerbaijani sport shooter. She was the first woman to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics.

She competed in the 25 m Pistol competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. She won a silver medal in the 2002 World Championships.

In the 2004 Olympics she also competed in 10 m Air Pistol without winning anything. However, she was part of the Soviet national team that set a team world record of 1152 in this discipline in 1985.

She competed in the 2012 Olympics

Ashumova is a teacher at the Azerbaijan Institute of Physical Culture in Baku. She has been a scholarship holder with the Olympic Solidarity program since November 2002. She is married to sport shooting coach Vladimir Lunev and is the mother of young shooter Ruslan Lunev.