Uzbekistan at the Olympics

The NOC of Uzbekistan, the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan, was founded in 1992 and a year later recognized by the IOC. Since 1994, Uzbekistan took part in all the summer and winter games. Uzbek athletes stood before the collapse of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988 for the Soviet Olympic team at. 1992 were included in the team of the CIS Uzbek athletes.

A total of 247 participants, including 63 women deployed. Uzbek athletes won a total of 21 medals, one of them in the Winter Games.

The first medal, at the same time the first Olympic victory, celebrated in 1994 in Lillehammer, the freestyle skier Lina Tscherjasowa, who won the jump competition. First medalist in the Summer Games in 1996 was the judoka arms Bagdasarow, who won the silver medal in the middleweight division. The first Olympic gold medal in the Summer Games 2000, the celebrated boxer Muhammadqodir Abdullayev after winning the light welterweight. First and so far only woman to have won a medal in the Summer Games, 2008, the gymnast Ekaterina Tschilko, the bronze was won on the trampoline. The most successful athlete with three gold and one silver medal in the freestyle wrestler Artur Taymazov.

At 14, swimmer Olga Gnedowskaja in 2004 was the youngest participant of Uzbekistan at the Olympics. The oldest participant was 39 years in 1996 with the wrestler Boris Budajew.

  • 2.1 Summer Games
  • 2.2 Winter Games

Overview of participants

Summer Games

Winter Games

List of medalists

Summer Games

Winter Games

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