Dilshod Nazarov

Dilshod Nazarov

Dilshod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov (Tajik: Dilşod Çamoliddinovic Nazarov, Persian: دلشاد نظروف‌; Russian: Дильшод Джамолиддинович Назаров, Dilshod Dzhamoliddinovich Nazarov) (born 6 May 1982) is a Tajik 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 seven times at the World Championships in Athletics (2005 to 2017), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dilshod Nazarov has received more than 109,756 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Dilshod Nazarov is the 1,861st most popular athlete (down from 1,373rd in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Tajikistan (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Tadzhik Athlete.