[1] Khakimova won the gold medal in the foil team event at the 2006 World Fencing Championships after beating Italy in the final.

[2] She accomplished this with her team mates Aida Shanayeva, Svetlana Boyko and Ianna Rouzavina.

[3] At the 2005 Summer Universiade, Khakimova won a bronze medal in the individual women's foil event.

[4] In 2013 Julia along with her husband, former head coach of the Russian National Junior Team Vadim Ayupov, opened their own fencing club - the United Fencing Academy (UFA), in Woodland Hills, CA.

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