Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov

Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov (born 17 September 2001)^[1] is an Uzbekistani weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[2]

Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov

Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
Born	(2001-09-17) 17 September 2001 (age 22)
Sport
Country	Uzbekistan
Sport	Weightlifting
Weight class	81 kg
Medal record Men's weightlifting Representing  Uzbekistan World Championships 2023 Riyadh 81 kg Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou 81 kg Islamic Solidarity Games 2021 Konya 81 kg Asian Championships 2020 Tashkent 81 kg 2022 Manama 81 kg Junior World Championships 2021 Tashkent 81 kg Summer Youth Olympics 2018 Buenos Aires 77 kg

Toshtemirov won the silver medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.^[3] He also won the gold medal in his event at the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, also held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.^[4][5]

Career

In 2018, Toshtemirov won the silver medal in the 77 kg event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.^[1][6] That year, he also competed in the men's 73 kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.^[7] He also competed in men's 81 kg event at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships held in Pattaya, Thailand.^[8]

Toshtemirov could have received the continental slot for Asia in the men's 81 kg event to represented Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan but he was not selected as Uzbekistan was restricted to two competitors per gender due to past doping violations.^[9]

Toshtemirov won the gold medal in the men's 81 kg Snatch event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey.^[10][11] He won the bronze medal in the men's 81 kg event with a total lift of 354 kg.

Toshtemirov won the bronze medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Manama, Bahrain.^[12] He competed in the men's 81 kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.

In September 2023, he won the bronze medal in the men's 81 kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[2] A few weeks later, he won the silver medal in the men's 81 kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.

References

1. "Weightlifting Results Book" (PDF). 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
2. (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
3. "2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. (PDF) from the original on 28 April 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
4. Oliver, Brian (27 May 2021). "American teenager Reeves takes weightlifting world title to keep run going". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
5. "2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. (PDF) from the original on 31 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
6. "Margaryan and Belkhir win epic battles for weightlifting gold". Olympic News. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
7. (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 November 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
8. "2019 World Weightlifting Championships Results Book" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation. (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
9. Oliver, Brian (20 June 2021). "Five lucky weightlifters get huge boost with places at Tokyo 2020". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
10. Berkeley, Geoff (13 August 2022). "Sakçı stars as Turkey win six golds in pool at Islamic Solidarity Games". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
11. (PDF). 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
12. (PDF). IWF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

External links

•   Media related to Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov at Wikimedia Commons
• Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov at the International Weightlifting Federation 
• Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov at Olympedia