Sport in Uzbekistan Over the centuries

Uzbekistan at the Olympics
Since its independence in 1991, Uzbekistan has taken part in the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics with increasing success. Uzbekistan has competed four times at the Summer Olympics, collecting one gold medal and five bronze medals in boxing, two gold medals and two silver medals in wrestling, and a silver medal in judo. Uzbekistan's only medal at the Winter Olympics was a gold medal in cross-country skiing in 1994. In the 2016 Rio Olympics Ruslan Nurudinov won gold in the men's 105kg weightlifting, lifting a total of 431kg, including an Olympic record 237kg in the clean & jerk.
Uzbek atheletes were particularly successful at the 2021 Olympic games in Tokyo. The country won three gold medals: Ulugbek Rashitov in Taekwondo, Akbar Djuraev in Weightlifting and Bakhodir Jalolov in Boxing.^[9] Uzbek gymnast Oxana Chusovitina also competed in her 8th Olympic games under the Uzbek flag at the event.^[10]
Chess
Uzbekistan scored a surprise win at the 2022 chess olympiad held in Chennai, India.^[11] The Uzbek team was undefeated, beating the higher-seeded Armenian and Dutch teams, and drawing the top seeds India and USA. The Uzbek team proved their staying power by placing second at the world team championships held at Jerusalem in November 2022.^[12] Uzbekistan's top player, Nodirkbek Abdusattorov is the current world champion of rapid chess, winning the 2021 rapid world championship in a playoff against Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi.^[13]
Notable athletes[edit]

Ruslan Chagaev

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  Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, cyclist
  
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  Artur Taymazov, wrestler
  
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  Ruslan Chagaev, boxer
  
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  Lina Cheryazova, freestyle skier
  
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  Elvira Saadi, gymnast
  
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  Maksim Shatskikh, footballer
  
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  Nodirbek Abdusattorov, chess player