21 Facts About Dilshod Nazarov

Dilshod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov was born on 6 May 1982 and is a Tajik track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw.

Dilshod Nazarov has represented his country at the Olympic Games on four occasions, winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, the first gold medal for Tajikistan in the history of the Olympic Games.

Dilshod Nazarov has competed seven times at the World Championships in Athletics, but has been most successful at regional competitions: he won medals at four consecutive Asian Athletics Championships and was the hammer champion at the Asian Games in 2006,2010 and 2014.

Dilshod Nazarov won his first global medal in 2010 at the IAAF Continental Cup.

Dilshod Nazarov made his debut on the global stage at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but he did not reach the final.

Dilshod Nazarov took fifth place at the 2000 World Junior Championships, an event won by 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Esref Apak, and repeated as the continental junior champion at the 2001 Asian Junior Athletics Championships.

Dilshod Nazarov took part in the inaugural Afro-Asian Games and managed to win the silver medal behind South African thrower Chris Harmse.

Dilshod Nazarov started the next year with an appearance at the 2005 Islamic Solidarity Games, where he took his country's sole gold medal of the tournament.

At the 2005 World Championships he was again knocked out in the qualifying round, but at the 2005 Asian Championships in Incheon Dilshod Nazarov won a silver medal, again behind Al-Zinkawi.

At the 2006 Asian Games Dilshod Nazarov finally won a gold medal, overcoming Ali Mohamed Al-Zinkawi who had held the lead until the fifth and penultimate round.

The next year Dilshod Nazarov participated in his second World Championships, but did not make it to the final round.

Dilshod Nazarov finished eleventh again at the global level at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin.

Dilshod Nazarov improved to fifth place at the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final however.

Dilshod Nazarov won his first continental title at the end of the year, finally beating Al-Zinkawi at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships after a series of second-place finishes.

Dilshod Nazarov was runner-up in the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge series having a combined score of 236.02 to finish behind Koji Murofushi.

Dilshod Nazarov repeated that placing for the second IAAF Hammer Challenge in 2011, this time finishing behind Hungary's Krisztian Pars.

Dilshod Nazarov still managed to place tenth at the 2012 London Olympics, but he was down in fifth on the IAAF Challenge circuit.

Dilshod Nazarov rebounded at the start of 2013 by setting a personal best of 80.71 m to win at the Hallesche Werfertage meet.

On 18 March 2021, Dilshod Nazarov was banned for two years by the AIU after testing positive for the banned steroid turinabol during re-analysis of samples taken from the 2011 World Championships.

Dilshod Nazarov is the president of the Athletics Federation of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Dilshod Nazarov's father Jamoliddin Nazarov was a soldier in the Tajik National Army who died in Tavildar during the Tajikistani Civil War.