Uzbekistan at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Uzbekistan
games=2004 Summer
competitors=70 (52 men, 18 women)
sports=13
flagbearer=Abdullo Tangriev
officials=
gold=2
silver=1
bronze=2
total=5
rank=34

Uzbekistan competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Medalists

Gold

* Artur Taymazov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle (120 kg)

* Alexandr Dokturishvili — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman (74 kg)

Silver

* Magomed Ibragimov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle (74 kg)

Bronze

* Bahodirjon Sooltonov — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight (54kg)
* Utkirbek Haydarov — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight (81kg)

Results and competitors by event

=Athletics=

The lone bright spot for the Uzbekistani team in Athens was Asian champion Lyubov Perepelova's run to the semifinals in the women's 100 meters. This was marred, however, by the positive drug test of shot putter Olga Shchukina. Asian decathlon champion Vitaliy Smirnov had three new personal bests on his way to a 17th place finish. Perepelova and Guzel Khubbieva were the only Uzbekistani in athletics to advance to at least the second round in their competition.

Men's 800 metres:
* Erkinjon Isakov
** Round 1: 1:48.28 (8th in heat 4, did not advance, 54th overall)

Men's Pole Vault:
* Leonid Andreev
**Qualification: Did not start

Men's Javelin Throw:
* Sergey Voynov
**Qualification: 74.68 m (12th in Group B, did not advance, 24th overall)

Men's Decathlon:
* Pavel Andreyev
** Did not finish
***100 metres: 11.29 s (797 points)
***Long Jump: No Mark (0 points) (Total: 797 points)
***Shot Put: 14.30 m (747 points) (Total: 1544 points)
***High Jump: 2.00 m (803 points) (Total: 2347 points)
***400 metres: 51.46 s (741 points) (Total: 3088 points)
***110 metre Hurdles: 15.54 s (785 points) (Total: 3873 points)
***Discus Throw: 41.89 m (703 points) (Total: 4576 points)
***Pole Vault: 4.90 m (880 points) ("personal best") (Total: 5456 points)
***Javelin Throw: Did not start

* Vitaliy Smirnov
**7993 points (17th overall)
***100 metres: 10.89 s (885 points)
***Long Jump: 7.07 m (830 points) (Total: 1715 points)
***Shot Put: 13.88 m (721 points) ("personal best") (Total: 2436 points)
***High Jump: 1.94 m (749 points) (Total: 3185 points)
***400 metres: 49.11 s (856 points) (Total: 4041 points)
***110 metre Hurdles: 14.77 s (978 points) (Total: 4826 points)
***Discus Throw: 42.47 m (715 points) (Total: 5634 points)
***Pole Vault: 4.70 m (819 points) ("personal best") (Total: 6453 points)
***Javelin Throw: 60.88 m (751 points) (Total: 7204 points)
***1500 metres: 4:23.31 (789 points) ("personal best") (Total: 7993 points)

Andreyev did not compete in the last two events.

Women's 100 metres:
* Guzel Khubbieva
**Round 1: 11.31 s (4th in heat 2, "Qualified", 19th overall)
**Round 2, 11.35 s (6th in heat 4, did not advance, 19th overall )

* Lyubov Perepelova
**Round 1: 11.30 s (3rd in heat 8, "Qualified", 17th overall)
**Round 2: 11.26 s (4th in heat 2, "Qualified", 13th overall)
**Semifinal: 11.40 s (8th in semifinal 2, did not advance, 16th overall)

Women's 200 metres:
* Lyubov Perepelova
**Round 1: 24.10 s (5th in heat 2, did not advance, 39th overall)

Women's 400 metres:
* Zamira Amirova
**Round 1: 54.43 s (7th in heat 3, did not advance, 37th overall)

Women's Long Jump:
* Anastasiya Zhuravleva
**Qualification: 6.39 m (12th in Group B, did not advance, 27th overall)

Women's Triple Jump:
* Anastasiya Zhuravleva
**Qualification: 13.64 m (11th in Group B, did not advance, 27th overall)

Women's Shot Put:
* Olga Shchukina
**Qualification: DisqualifiedShchukina tested positive for Clenbuterol, a banned substance, and was disqualified and excluded. She had finished 19th in her group and failed to advance.

Women's Javelin Throw:
* Liliya Dusmetova
**Qualification: 52.46 m (20th in Group B, did not advance, 38th overall)

=Boxing=

Uzbekistan sent nine boxers to Athens. All nine made it past the round of 32, with five victories and four byes. Four of the boxers fell in the round of 16 (two of which had not had matches in the round of 32). Three more barely missed medalling by being defeated in the quarterfinals, while the two that had won their quarterfinal bouts both lost in the semifinals to earn bronze medals. These two bronze medals put the Uzbekis in a four-way tie for 12th place in the boxing medals count. The combined record of the nine boxers was 12-9.

Men's Flyweight (51kg):
* Tulashboy Doniyorov
** Round of 32: Defeated Violito Payla of the Philippines (36 - 26)
** Round of 16: Defeated Ron Siler of United States (45 - 22)
** Quarterfinal: Lost to Jerome Thomas of France (16 - 25)

Men's Bantamweight (54kg):
*Bahodirjon Sooltonov
** Round of 32: Bye
** Round of 16: Defeated Andrzej Liczik of Poland (outscored; Round 2, 1:28)
** Quarterfinal: Defeated Andrew Kooner of Canada (44 - 32)
** Semifinal: Lost to Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz of Cuba (13 - 27) (Bronze Medal)

Men's Featherweight (57kg):
* Bekzod Khidirov
** Round of 32: Defeated Sohail Ahmed of Pakistan (outscored; Round 2, 1:30)
** Round of 16: Lost to Galib Jafarov of Canada (22 - 40)

Men's Light Welterweight (64kg):
* Dilshod Mahmudov
** Round of 32: Bye
** Round of 16: Defeated Alessandro Matos of Brazil (26 - 16)
** Quarterfinal: Lost to Yudel Johnson Cedeno of Cuba (28 - 32)

Men's Welterweight (69kg):
* Sherzod Husanov
** Round of 32: Defeated Jean Carlos Prada of Venezuela (33 - 20)
** Round of 16: Defeated Bulent Ulusoy of Turkey (23 - 9)
** Quarterfinal: Lost to Oleg Saitov of Russia (14 - 22)

Men's Middleweight (75kg):
* Sherzod Abdurahmonov
** Round of 32: Defeated Serdar Ustuner of Turkey (34 - 16)
** Round of 16: Lost to Gaydarbek Gaydarbekov of Russia (19 - 33)

Men's Light Heavyweight (81kg):
*Utkirbek Haydarov
** Round of 32: Defeated Isaac Ekpo of Nigeria (21 - 11)
** Round of 16: Defeated Abdelhani Kensi of Algeria (31 - 19)
** Quarterfinal: Defeated Ihsan Yildirim Tarhan of Turkey (16 - 11)
** Semifinal: Lost to Andre Ward of United States (15 - 17) (Bronze Medal)

Men's Heavyweight (91kg):
* Igor Alborov
** Round of 16: Lost to Mohamed Elsayed of Egypt (18 - 18; decision)

Men's Super Heavyweight (over 91kg):
* Rustam Saidov
** Round of 16: Lost to Michel Lopez Nunez of Cuba (13-18

=Canoeing=

Flatwater

No Uzbekistani boats made a final in Athens, but there were some solid results, especially in both K1 500 metre competitions, where decent mid-table finishes were recorded. Although the K4 1000m crew appears to have done well to finish 10th, there were only 10 boats in the competition, and the Uzbekistani entry was the only one not to make the final.

Men's K1 500 metres:
* Anton Ryahov
**Heat: 1:42.253 (6th place in heat 2, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 1:40.737 (5th place in semifinal 1, did not advance, 12th overall)

Men's K1 1000 metres:
* Danila Turchin
**Heat: 3:48.140 (8th place in heat 2, failed to advance, 24th overall)

Men's K2 500 metres:
* Aleksey Babadjanov and Sergey Borzov
**Heat: 1:34.782 (7th place in heat 1, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 1:33.654 (6th place in semifinal 2, did not advance, 15th overall)

Men's K2 1000 metres:
* Danila Turchin and Michail Tarasov
**Heat: 3:24.031 (8th in heat 2, did not advance, 16th overall)

Men's K4 1000 metres:
* Aleksey Babadjanov, Dmitriy Strijkov, Sergey Borzov, Anton Ryahov
**Heat: 3:01.446 (5th in heat 2, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 2:56.594 (4th in semifinal 1, did not advance, 10th overall)

Women's K1 500 metres:
* Yulia Borzova
**Heat: 1:56.586 (6th in heat 2, advanced to semifinal)
**Semifinal: 1:59.560 (6th in semifinal 2, did not advance, 17th overall)

=Cycling=

Road cycling

Uzbekistan's only cyclist at the 2004 Games finished in a 17 man group almost 9 minutes behind the leaders. Lagutin stayed with the main group through the first 14 laps, but when the pace ramped up as the finish line approached, he dropped back.

Men's Road Race:
* Sergey Lagutin
**5:50:35 (59th overall, 8:51 behind)

=Gymnastics=

Artistic Gymnastics

Oxana Chusovitina attempted to qualify in only 1 event, the vault, and fell well short, finishing last and producing the lowest scored vault of the qualification round with her first effort. Considering that Chusovitina was an Olympic gold medalist in the team event for the Unified Team, and had won a gold medal at the 2003 Worlds on the vault, along with 8 other medals at the World Championships and 3 at the Asian Games, this was a surprisingly poor performance.

Women's all-around:
* Oxana Chusovitina
**Qualification: 8.675 points (97th overall)
***Vault: 8.800 points (23rd overall)

Trampoline Gymnastics

The only Uzbekistani gymnast on the trampoline fared much better than her artistic counterpart, finishing only a point short of qualifying for the final thanks to two consistent routines that both placed 11th.

Women's Individual:
* Ekaterina Khilko
**Qualification: 61.60 points (11th overall, did not advance)

=Judo=

Uzbekistani judoka had a dismal Games, winning only a single bout from the 7 contested, the largest delegation in the competition to not have at least two wins. Interestingly, not a single Uzbekistani judoka advanced to the repechage, again making them the largest team to have such a dubious honour.

Men's 60 kg (Extra-Lightweight):
* Sanjar Zokirov
**Round of 32: Lost to Revazi Zintiridis of Greece (Tani-otoshi; ippon - 4:33)

Men's 66 kg (Half-Lightweight):
* Murat Kalikulov
**Round of 32: Lost to Milos Mijakovic of Serbia and Montenegro (Obitori-gaeshi; waza-ari)

Men's 73 kg (Lightweight):
* Egamnazar Akbarov
**Round of 32: Lost to Bernard Sylvain Mvondo of Cameroon (penalty points; 2 shidos)

Men's 81 kg (Half-Middleweight):
* Ramziddin Sayidov
**Round of 32: Lost to Siarhei Shundzikau of Belarus (Sukui-nage ; ippon - 3:58)

Men's 90 kg (Middleweight):
* Vyacheslav Pereteyko — Defeated in round of 32
**Round of 32: Lost to Dionysios Iliadis of Greece (Kouchi-gari ; ippon - 1:55)

Men's +100 kg (Heavyweight):
* Abdullo Tangriev — Defeated in round of 16
**Round of 32: Defeated Mathieu Bataille of France (Tsuri-goshi ; ippon - 4:17)
**Round of 16: Defeated Indrek Pertelson of Estonia (Sumi-otoshi ; yuko)

=Rowing=

Of the three boats Uzbekistan sent to the Olympics, only the single sculler Tchernenko finished ahead of more than one other boat. Tchernenko's qualification for the D final, avoiding the five weakest boats in the E final, was the rowing team's high point. While the other boats finished higher in overall ranking than Tchernenko, these positions were last and second last in their respective events.

Men's Single Sculls:
*Vladimir Tchernenko
**Heats: 7:38.27 (3rd in heat 3, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 7:13.43 (3rd in repechage 3, advanced to semifinal D/E)
**Semifinal D/E: 7:13.21 (3rd in semifinal D/E 1, advanced to final D)
**Final D: 7:23.56 (6th in final D, 24th overall)

Men's Lightweight Double Sculls:
*Sergey Bogdanov and Ruslan Naurzaliyev
**Heats: 6:52.34 (5th in heat 3, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 6:45.69 (4rd in repechage 3, advanced to semifinal C/D)
**Semifinal C/D: 6:45.47 (5th in semifinal C/D 2, 21st overall)

Women's Single Sculls:
*Elena Usarova
**Heats: 8:32.56 (6th in heat 3, advanced to repechage)
**Repechage: 8:06.11 (5th in repechage 3, advanced to semifinal C/D)
**Semifinal C/D: 8:34.04 (6th in semifinal C/D 2, advanced to final D)
**Final D: 8:09.92(5th in final D, 23rd overall)

=Shooting=

The lone male shooter, Skoromnov's best showing came in the 3 position rifle event, where he came only 8 points short of reaching a qualification position. He also shot a perfect series during the prone event, though was not as strong overall there. Alyona Aksyonova was not as successful, finishing ahead of just four other shooters in each of her events.

Men's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:
*Vyacheslav Skoromnov
**Qualification: 1161 points (394 prone, 380 standing, 387 kneeling) (T-12th overall, did not advance)

Men's 50 metre Rifle Prone:
*Vyacheslav Skoromnov
**Qualification: 591 points (T-24th overall, did not advance)

Men's 10 metre Air Rifle:
*Vyacheslav Skoromnov
**Qualification: 592 points (T-18th overall, did not advance)

Women's 50 metre Rifle 3 Positions:
*Alyona Aksyonova
**Qualification: 562 points (193 prone, 179 standing, 190 kneeling) (29th overall, did not advance)

Women's 10 metre Air Rifle:
*Alyona Aksyonova
**Qualification: 384 points (40th overall, did not advance)

=Swimming=

None of the 15 Uzbekistani swimmers at the Athens Games were close to qualifying for a semifinal, and most were near the back of the field. Ravil Nachaev in the men's 50 metre Freestyle was the only swimmer to place in the top half of his event, while Nikita Polyakov finished the men's 400 metre IM more than a minute behind Michael Phelps' world record, and almost 30 seconds behind the next-to-last finisher.

Men's 50 metre Freestyle:
* Ravil Nachaev
**Heat: 23.23 s (T-36th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Freestyle:
* Alexandr Agafanov
**Heat: 52.92 s (57th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Freestyle:
* Petr Vasilev
**Heat: 1:56.93 (57th overall, did not advance)

Men's 400 metre Freestyle:
* Sergey Tsoy
**Heat: 4:16.91 (45th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Backstroke:
* Danil Bugakov
**Heat: 1:02.28 (43rd overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Breaststroke:
* Oleg Sidorov
**Heat: 1:08.30 (56th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Breaststroke:
* Andrey Morkovin
**Heat: 2:18.48 (34th overall, did not advance)

Men's 100 metre Butterfly:
* Oleg Lyashko
**Heat: 55.90 s (47th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Butterfly:
* Sergey Pankov
**Heat: 2:13.06 (39th overall, did not advance)

Men's 200 metre Individual Medley:
* Oleg Pukhnatiy
**Heat: 2:08.24 (42nd overall, did not advance)

Men's 400 metre Individual Medley:
* Nikita Polyakov
**Heat: 5:09.66 (36th overall, did not advance)

Women's 100 metre Freestyle:
* Irina Shlemova
**Heat: 59.21 s (45th overall, did not advance)

Women's 100 metre Backstroke:
* Olga Gnedovckaya
**Heat: 1:15.33 (41st overall, did not advance)

Women's 200 metre Backstroke:
* Saida Iskandarova
**Heat: 2:26.17 (32nd overall, did not advance)

Women's 100 metre Butterfly:
* Mariya Bugakova
**Heat: 1:07.08 s (37th overall, did not advance)

=Table Tennis=

The only table tennis player from Uzbekistan at the Athens Olympics was Manzura Inoyatova, who was ranked 371st in the world. She lost her first match in straight sets.

Women's Singles:
* Manzura Inoyatova
**Round 1: Lost to Maria Fazekas of Hungary (6 - 11, 7 - 11, 3 - 11, 7 - 11)

=Taekwondo=

Neither woman entered in Taekwondo won a match, but Kaydashova's bye into the quarterfinals of the under 57kg division led to a great medal opportunity, as she actually led her Mexican opponent 6-2 after a strong 2nd round, where she scored with two offensive and two defensive kicks. Salazar Blanco came storming back in the final round to force a tie, and the three judge panel awarded the Mexican the match on superiority.

Women's Under 57kg:
* Irina Kaydashova
**Round of 16: Bye
**Quarterfinals: Lost to Iridia Salazar Blanco of Mexico (7 - 7; Superiority)

Women's Over 67kg:
Natalya Mikryukova
**Round of 16: Lost to Laurence Rase of Belgium (6 - 9)

=Weightlifting=

The Uzbekistani weightlifting team did not challenge for a medal in any of their events. Saidov was second last at 94 kg, while the other two competitors had mid-table finishes. Alexander Urinov was the second lightest competitor in the 105 kg division at 102.22 kg, enabling him to win a tiebreak for 8th place.

Men's 94 kg:
*Furkat Saidov
**320.0 kg (Snatch 145.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 175.0 kg) (18th overall)

Men's 105 kg:
*Alexander Urinov
**400.0 kg (Snatch 185.0 kg, Clean & Jerk 215.0 kg) (8th overall)

Men's +105 kg:
*Igor Khalilov
**420.0 kg (Snatch 187.5 kg, Clean & Jerk 232.5 kg) (9th overall)

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Freestyle Wrestling was clearly Uzbekistan's most successful event, as they earned two of their five medals and the team as a whole went 12-5. Artur Taymazov had earned a Silver medal in Sydney, and with the defending champion not participating, Taymazov's route was clear. Still, the dominance of his performance was impressive, as only one of his opponents could make it the full length of a match, and only that opponent managed to score a point against him. The silver medal of Magomed Ibragimov was also impressive, but for different reasons.

While Tamayzov entered as World Champion and favourite, Ibragimov had no such status. While he did win the 2003 World Junior championship, and the final Olympic Qualifying tournament, Ibragimov had lost both of his matches at the 2002 and 2003 Worlds, and lost out to two of his opponents in Athens, Heidari and Krupniakov at the 2002 Asian Games. He barley managed to beat both at the Olympics, and made his way to a surprise final spot before succumbing to Gatsalov.

Men's 55 kg:
* Dilshod Mansurov
**Pool 6
***Defeated Bashir Ahmad Rahmati of Afghanistan (Superiority; 5:03)
***Lost to Mavlet Batirov of Russia (1 - 3)
**2nd in pool, did not advance (12 TP, 5 CP, 10th overall)

Men's 60 kg:
* Damir Zakhartdinov
**Pool 6
***Defeated Kenji Inoue of Japan (3 - 2)
***Lost to Lubos Cikel of Austria (5 - 6)
***Lost to Jung Young-Ho of South Korea (Fall; 4:21)
**3rd in pool, did not advance (13 TP, 4 CP, 9th overall)

Men's 66 kg:
* Artur Tavkazakhov
**Pool 6
***Lost to Makhach Murtazaliev of Russia (2 - 8)
***Defeated Alireza Dabir of Iran (5 - 4)
**2nd in pool, did not advance (7 TP, 4 CP, 13th overall)

Men's 96 kg:
* Magomed Ibragimov
**Pool 2
***Defeated Aleksey Krupniakov of Kyrgyzstan (3 - 2)
***Defeated Krassimir Kotchev of Bulgaria (3 - 0)
**1st in pool, "Qualified" (6 TP, 7 CP)
**Quarterfinal: Defeated Wang Yuanyuan of China (4 - 1)
**Semifinal: Defeated Alireza Heidari of Iran (6 - 4)
**Final: Lost to Khadjimourat Gatsalov of Russia (1 - 4) (Silver Medal)

Men's 120 kg:
* Artur Taymazov
**Pool 2
***Defeated Marek Garmulewicz of Poland (Superiority; 3:55)
***Defeated Palwinder Singh Cheema of India (Superiority; 1:13)
**1st in pool, "Qualified" (20 TP, 8 CP)
**Quarterfinal: Defeated Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov of Russia (7 - 3)
**Semifinal: Defeated Aydin Polatci of Turkey (3 - 0 ; 6:14)
**Final: Defeated Alireza Rezaei of Iran (Fall; 4:33) (Gold Medal)

Greco-Roman

The first Uzbekistani gold medalist of the Athens games, Alexandr Dokturishvili was born in Georgia and competed for his country of birth until 2001, including winning a World Junior Championship and a European Championship. In 2003, he began competing for Uzbekistan, and after winning the Asian Games and the Olympic Qualifying tournament, won all five of his matches to earn Uzbekistan's first ever Olympic gold medal in Wrestling.

Men's 74 kg:
* Alexandr Dokturishvili
**Pool 6
***Defeated Tamas Berzicza of Hungary (4 - 2; 7:09)
***Defeated Vugar Aslanov of Azerbaijan (4 - 0)
***Defeated Alexios Kolistopoulos of Greece (8 - 4)
**1st in pool, "Qualified" (16 TP, 9 CP, 13th overall)
**Quarterfinal: Bye
**Semifinal: Defeated Varteres Samouragchev of Russia (5 - 2)
**Final: Defeated Marko Yli-Hannuksela of Finland (4 - 1) (Gold Medal)

Men's 96 kg:
* Aleksey Cheglakov
**Pool 5
***Defeated Igors Kostins of Kyrgyzstan (3 - 2)
***Lost to Memhmet Ozal of Turkey (0 - 3)
**2nd in pool, did not advance (3 TP, 3 CP, 14th overall)

Officials

*President: Aziz Nosirov
*Secretary General: Malik Babaev

References

* [http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/2004/Results/ Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad]
* [http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbwrest/start.php FILA Results database]