Ixtiyor Navroʻzov

Ixtiyor Navroʻzov
Navroʻzov at the 2016 Olympic Games
Personal information
Surname:	Ixtiyor Karimovich Navroʻzov
Nationality:	Uzbekistan
Society:	Dynamo Tashkent
Date of birth:	5th July 1989
Place of birth:	Buxoro , Soviet Union
Size:	1.75 m
Style:	Freestyle wrestling
Weight class:	lightweight

Ixtiyor Karimovich Navroʻzov (born July 5, 1989 in Buxoro ) is an Uzbek wrestler .

Career

After Ixtiyor Navroʻzov won a bronze and a silver medal at the last two Asian Championships , he took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London . He finished ninth in the lightweight category .

After a bronze medal at the Asian Games in 2014 and a silver medal at the World Championships in 2015 , the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro made his second lightweight Olympic participation . In the quarterfinals he met Franklin Gómez from Puerto Rico. As the fight came to an end, Gómez took a step that got Navroʻzov out of the ring and initially earned Gómez two points. However, one of the judges argued against it, which is why the point went to the Uzbeks and they won the fight.

This decision was controversial from the start and caused a shit storm on the online platform Twitter . There other wrestlers like Jakob Varner , Cael Sanderson or Ben Askren wrote under the hashtag “#GomezGotRobbed” that he had been “robbed”. The former governor of Puerto Rico, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, also took part in this protest. The incumbent governor Alejandro García Padilla wrote to protest against the verdict, which he called "the theft of sport".

Shortly after the fight, at least three judges were suspended from United World Wrestling . They also claimed that an investigation would be conducted, but their decision could not be overturned. On September 3, 2016, it was announced without giving a reason that at least three judges were officially excluded from United World Wrestling.

There was also a controversial decision in the battle for bronze against Gandsorigiin Mandachnaran from Mongolia. When Mandachnaran was leading 7: 6 a few seconds before the end, he was already beginning to celebrate the victory. In response, he received one point of inactivity. This resulted in Navroʻzov winning the bronze medal as he scored the last point. The Mongolian coaches protested against this score, which could not be challenged, by undressing on the mat in front of the judges and throwing their clothes on the table of the jury. This protest led to another penalty point for the Mongols, which is why Navroʻzov won 7: 8.

In 2017 and 2018 Navroʻzov was Asian champion.

Web links

• Ixtiyor Navroʻzov in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Noel Piñeiro Planas: Franklin Gómez se despide de Río 2016. August 21, 2016, accessed on June 6, 2020 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ https://caribbeanbusiness.com/garcia-padilla-vows-protest-over-theft-to-franklin-gomez/. August 23, 2016, accessed June 6, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Rio 2016: Officials suspended after 'suspicious' call involving ex-NJ wrestler. August 22, 2016, accessed June 6, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Víctor Ortiz Pillot: Expulsados los tres oficiales del combate de Franklin en Río. September 3, 2016, accessed June 6, 2020 (Spanish). 
5. ↑ Video of the fight against Navro'zov Mandachnaran. In: Olympic Channel. IOC , accessed June 6, 2020 .