Rishod Sobirov

Rishod Sobirov ( Cyrillic and Russian Ришод Собиров Rischod Sobirow ; born September 11, 1986 in Burbogi , Buxoro Province ) is an Uzbek judoka . He competes in the half-light weight (class up to 66 kilograms).

Sobirov won the title in the class up to 55 kilograms at the Asian Junior Championships in 2005. In 2007 he entered the Asian Championships in the adult class up to 60 kilograms and received the silver medal behind the Iranian Masoud Haji Akhound Zade . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , Sobirov received the bronze medal after only losing to the South Korean Olympic champion Choi Min-ho . In 2009 Sobirov won bronze at the Asian Championships.

Sobirov's most successful year was 2010: He won the tournaments in Suwon (Masters), Tunis and Moscow and finished second in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. He then won the titles at the World Championships in Tokyo and at the Asian Games in Guanzhou. In 2011 Sobirov won the Masters tournament in Baku and the tournaments in Paris and Moscow. In August 2011 he defended his world title in Paris. After Sobirov had lost in the final against Russian Arsen Galstjan at the Masters tournament in Almaty in early 2012 , he won again at the tournament in Paris in February. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Sobirov won the bronze medal again, as he did four years earlier in Beijing, and he also received bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Web links

• Rishod Sobirov on Judoinside (English)
• Rishod Sobirov in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )