Dilschod Nazarov

Dilschod Nazarov
Dilschod Nazarow in Rio de Janeiro 2016
Full name	Dilschod Jamoliddinowitsch Nazarow
nation	Tajikistan
birthday	6th May 1982 (age 38)
place of birth	Dushanbe ,  Soviet Union
size	187 cm
Weight	120 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	80.71 m (May 25, 2013 in Halle )
Trainer	Saytuna Nazarova
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games 3 × 1 × 0 × Asian Championships 5 × 2 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 78.68 m  World championships silver Beijing 2015 78.55 m  Asian Games gold Doha 2006 74.43 m gold Guangzhou 2010 76.44 m gold Incheon 2014 76.82 m silver Jakarta 2018 74.16 m Asian Championships bronze Manila 2003 69.90 m silver Incheon 2005 71.38 m silver Amman 2007 75.70 m gold Guangzhou 2009 76.92 m gold Pune 2013 78.32 m gold Wuhan 2015 77.68 m gold Bhubaneswar 2017 76.69 m gold Doha 2019 76.14 m Junior Asian Championships gold Singapore 1999 63.56 m gold Bandar Seri Begawan 2001 68.08 m
last change: September 24, 2019

Dilschod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov ( Tajik Дилшод Ҷамолиддинович Назаров , English transcription Dilshod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov; born May 6, 1982 in Dushanbe , Tajik SSR , USSR ) is a Tajik hammer . With his Olympic victory in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 , he won the first ever gold medal at the Olympic Games for his home country.

Athletic career

Dilschod Nazarow gained his first international experience at the 1998 Junior World Championships in Annecy , where he was eliminated with 60.02 m in qualification. He then took part in the Asian Games in Bangkok for the first time and was seventh with a throw on 63.91 m. The following year he won the Junior Asian Championships in Singapore with 63.56 m . In 2000 he finished seventh at the Asian Championships in Jakarta with 61.62 m and was fifth at the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile with 63.43 m. In 2001 he won the Junior Asian Championships in Bandar Seri Begawan again with 68.08 m and reached twelfth place at the Summer Universiade in Beijing with a width of 66.10 m. The following year he finished fourth at the Asian Championships in Colombo with 67.70 m and was ninth at the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, with 58.39 m.

In 2003 he won bronze at the Asian Championships and Manila with 69.90 m, his first medal in the adult category. In 2004 he qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in Athens and was eliminated without a valid attempt in qualification . In 2005 he won the Islamic Solidarity Games in Mecca with 76.98 m and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Helsinki with 73.38 m. He then won the silver medal at the Asian Championships in Incheon behind Kuwait Ali Mohamed al-Zankawi with 71.38 m . The following year he won the Asian Games in Doha for the first time with 74.43 m . In 2007 he won silver again at the Asian Championships in Amman with 75.70 m behind al-Zankawi and thus qualified for the World Championships in Osaka , where he did not get past the first round with 71.70 m.

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he finished eleventh with a width of 76.54 m in the final , as well as at the World Championships in Berlin the following year with 71.69 m. He then won the Asian Championships in Guangzhou, China, for the first time with 76.92 m . In 2010 he finished second at the Athletics Continental Cup in Split and defended his title at the Asian Games in Guangzhou with 76.44 m . At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu and at the 2012 Olympic Games in London , he was tenth. In 2013 he won the Asian Championships in Pune with 78.32 m and was fifth at the World Championships in Moscow with 78.31 m . The following year he was fourth at the 2014 Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech and won the Asian Games in Incheon for the third time in a row with 76.82 m .

In 2015 he defended his title at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 77.68 m and won the silver medal at the World Championships in Beijing with 78.55 m behind the Pole Paweł Fajdek . It was the first World Cup podium for Tajikistan since Andrei Abduwalijew won gold in 1995. In 2016 he again took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and surprisingly won the final with a throw of 78.68 m . The following year he won his fourth title at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 76.69 m. He received a bye for the World Championships in London, which he finished with a throw on 77.22 m in seventh place . In 2018 he had to admit defeat only to Katari Ashraf Amgad el-Seify at the Asian Games in Jakarta with 74.16 m . He then won the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava with 77.34 m.

In 2019 he won the Asian Championships in Doha with 76.14 m for the fifth time and also qualified for the World Championships in Doha in September. Shortly before the start of the championships, the independent integrity commission (AIU) announced that Nazarow will be temporarily suspended due to a positive doping test from 2011 for the banned substance Turinabol .

In 2005 and 2010, Nazarow was Tajik hammer throw champion.

Web links

Commons : Dilschod Nazarow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Dilshod Nazarov in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Dilschod Nazarow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Steve Landells: First impressions - Dilshod Nazarov ( English ) IAAF. August 29, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Murali Krishnan: Nazarov collects fourth Asian hammer title in Bhubaneswar ( English ) IAAF. July 8, 2017. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
2. ↑ Hammer throw Olympic champion Nazarow suspended