Andrei Abduvaliev

Andrei Abduvaliev
nation	Soviet Union United Team Tajikistan Uzbekistan
birthday	June 30, 1966
place of birth	St. Petersburg
size	190 cm
Weight	125 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	83.46 m
society	Dynamo Dushanbe
status	resigned
End of career	2005
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Barcelona 1992 Hammer throw  World championships gold Stuttgart 1993 Hammer throw gold Gothenburg 1995 Hammer throw Asian Championships gold Fukuoka 1998 Hammer throw  Asian Games silver Bangkok 1998 Hammer throw

Andrei Chakimowitsch Abduvaliyev ( Russian Андрей Хакимович Абдувалиев , English transcription Andrey Abduvaliyev ; born June 30, 1966 in Leningrad ) is a former hammer thrower . He is an Olympic champion and two-time world champion.

Until 1991 he competed for the Soviet Union . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he won the gold medal with a width of 82.54 m. As a starter for Tajikistan , he was then twice world champion: 1993 in Stuttgart (81.64 m) and 1995 in Gothenburg (81.56 m). He also won the Central Asian Games in Tashkent in 1995 . At the 1996 Olympic Games , he was the Tajik flag bearer, but was unable to participate due to an injury.

In 1997 he changed his nationality and now represented Uzbekistan . He is one of the few athletes who competed for three countries. In 1998 he was Asian champion and won silver at the Asian Games in Bangkok . In 1999 he ended his sporting career.

Abduwalijew set his personal best in 1990 in Sochi with 83.46 m. He is 1.86 meters tall and weighed 112 kg at competition times.

Web links

• Andrey Abduvaliyev in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Andrei Abduwalijew in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )