What achievements did the Tajiks achieve at the Olympics?

Today at 1:20 p.mBy Alexey Korchagin, specially for Asia-Plus

On the eve of the Olympic Games in 2024, we recalled how the Tajiks played in the games of past years.

XXXIII. the summer olympic games will be held from july 26 to august 11 in the capital of france. More than 10,000 athletes from 205 countries will participate in the competition. 329 sets of medals in 32 sports will be contested. The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games will take place on July 26 on the famous French river Seine.

Tajik athletes will compete in six sports at the Games: judo (Emomali Nurali, Bekhruzi Khojazoda, Somon Makhmadbekov, Komronshohi Ustopirien, Jahongir Majidov, Temur Rakhimov), boxing (Mijgona Samadova, Bakhodur Usmonov, Davlat Boltaev), W taekwon- Abdusalomova), in in freestyle wrestling (Viktor Rassadin), in swimming (Ekaterina Bordacheva, Fakhriddin Madkamov), in athletics (Favoris Muzrapov).

“Asia-Plus” decided to recall who won prizes at the Olympic Games in Soviet times and during the period of independence.

The championship titles at the Olympic Games were won by the representative in kayaking and canoeing Yuri Lobanov (Munich, 1972), the pentathlete Anatoly Starostin (Moscow, 1980, twice – in individual and team competitions), the hammer thrower Andrei Abduvaliev (Barcelona, ​​​​1992) and the hammer thrower Dilshod Nazarov (Brazil, 2016).

The silver medalist was freestyle wrestler Yusuf Abdusalomov (Beijing, 2008), and the bronze medalists were archer Zebiniso Rustamova (Montreal, 1976), rower Yuri Lobanov (Moscow, 1980), judoka Rasul Bokiev (Beijing, 2008), boxer Mavzuna London, 2012).

The most successful for Tajikistan athletes was the Moscow Olympics-80, where they won two gold medals (Anatolij Starostin, modern pentathlon, in individual and team competitions) and one bronze medal (Yurij Lobanov, double canoe, 1000 m).

At the Olympic Games in Barcelona (Spain, 1992), 4 representatives of Tajikistan performed as part of the unified Olympic team of the CIS countries. Then, in addition to the gold, Andrey Abduvalyev (1st place in hammer throw), Andrey Vasiliev (4th place in rifle shooting at moving targets), Vadim Shikarev (5th place in archery) and Vasiliy Sokov (9th place in triple jump). ) achieved success.

As an independent nation, Tajikistan first competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics and has participated in every Summer Games since then. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Tajikistan team won its first Olympic medals – one bronze and one silver.

The national team was represented by 15 athletes who competed in 8 sports. Yusuf Abdusalomov won the silver medal in the freestyle competition and Rasul Bokiev (judo) added bronze to the team.

In London 2012, the team managed to win one bronze medal – its owner was the female boxing representative Mavzuna Chorieva.

Before the 2012 Olympics, experts unanimously claimed that the Tajik team in London would make a qualitative leap to the top, given the success in Beijing and the number of athletes who competed at the Games.

However, in reality, it turned out that many of them quit the fight in the early stages of the competition. As a result, there is only one medal in women’s boxing.

The Olympic qualification cycle before the 2016 Games turned out to be unsuccessful for Tajikistan. There were only seven athletes on the Rio 2016 Olympic team. Boxer Anvar Yunusov, hammer thrower Dilshod Nazarov, judoka Komronshohi Ustopirien and Muhammadmurod Abdurakhmonov qualified for the Olympics.

In addition, Tajikistan was allocated quotas for swimming and athletics. Swimming was represented by Anastasia Tyurina and Olim Kurbonov, and athletics by Kristina Pronzhenko.

The National Olympic Committee of Tajikistan expected Tajik athletes to receive 10-12 tickets for the 2016 Games. As a result, the licensing cycle failed. The rap for all was taken by the track and field athlete Dilshod Nazarov, who won the gold.

The qualification for the 2020 Games turned out to be a little more successful – ten athletes went to the Olympics in Tokyo – three below the quota.

At the 2020 Games, all ten Tajik athletes – Bakhodur Usmonov, Shabbos Negmatulloev, Siyovush Zuhurov (boxing), Somon Makhmadbekov, Akmal Murodov, Komronshokhi Ustopiriyon, Temur Rakhimov (judo), Ildar Akhmadiev (Tyurwijm athletics), Ildar Akhmadiev (Tyurlijm athletics ) ) ) failed to get medals. Nevertheless, Tajikistan “registered” in the overall team final table – we were the only one of all the teams of the countries of the former USSR who did not win an award at the Olympics in Japan.

Fourteen athletes from Tajikistan will go to the 2024 Games – eleven of them won the license themselves. We will find out soon whether we will have medals this time.

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