Tajikistan’s Rio Olympics champion Dilshod Nazarov has collected the fifth Asian hummer title in Doha, Qatar, according to the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Tajikistan.
Tajik hammer thrower won the 23rd Asian Athletics Championships with a throw of 76.12 meters.
The silver in this event reportedly went to Qatar’s Ashraf Al-Saifi who was second with 73.76m, ninety centimeters better than Uzbek Suhrob Khojayev.
Dilshod Nazarov (born 6 May 1982) is a Tajikistani track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw. He has represented his country at the Olympic Games on four occasions (in 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016), winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, the first gold medal for Tajikistan in the history of the Olympic Games.
He has competed six times at the World Championships in Athletics (2005 to 2015), but has been most successful at regional competitions: he won medals at five consecutive Asian Athletics Championships and was the hammer champion at the Asian Games in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2017. He won his first global medal (a silver) in 2010 at the IAAF Continental Cup.
His personal best for the event is 80.71 meters, set in 2013.
The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was the 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from April 21 to April 24.
