Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov (born 17 September 2001) is an Uzbekistani

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. He won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also won bronze at the

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held in Bahrain. Toshtemirov won the silver medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also won the gold medal in his event at the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, also held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Career

In 2018, Toshtemirov won the silver medal in the 77kg event at the

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held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. That year, he also competed in the men's 73kg event at the

2018 World Weightlifting Championships The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. This was the first World Championship after the International Weightlifting Federation, IWF changed their weight classes and nullified all w ...

held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. He also competed in men's 81kg event at the

2019 World Weightlifting Championships The 2019 World Weightlifting Championships was held in Pattaya, Thailand from 18 to 27 September 2019. On September 12, Egypt was banned from competing at these Championships due to multiple doping offenses. The host nation, Thailand, was also ba ...

held in Pattaya, Thailand. Toshtemirov could have received the continental slot for Asia in the men's 81kg event to represent Uzbekistan at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

in Tokyo, Japan but he was not selected as Uzbekistan was restricted to two competitors per gender due to past doping violations. Toshtemirov won the gold medal in the men's 81kg Snatch event at the

2021 Islamic Solidarity Games ‌The 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games () were the 5th edition of the event held from 9 to 18 August 2022 at Konya, Turkey under the aegis of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF). It was the first time in history that the event was organise ...

held in Konya, Turkey. He won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event with a total lift of 354kg. Toshtemirov won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Manama, Bahrain. He competed in the men's 81kg event at the

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in Bogotá, Colombia. In September 2023, he won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event at the

World Weightlifting Championships The World Weightlifting Championships is an international weightlifting competition, currently held annually (except for years of the Summer Olympic Games) by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The predecessor organization of the I ...

held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A few weeks later, he won the silver medal in the men's 81kg event at the

2022 Asian Games The 2022 Asian Games (), officially the 19th Asian Games () and also known as Hangzhou 2022 ( zh, c=, s=杭州2022, labels=no), were a continental multi-sport event which was held from 23 September to 8 October 2023 in Hangzhou, China. The ...

held in Hangzhou, China.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Toshtemirov, Mukhammadkodir Living people 2001 births Place of birth missing (living people) Uzbekistani male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists in weightlifting Asian Games silver medalists for Uzbekistan World Weightlifting Championships medalists Asian Weightlifting Championships medalists 21st-century Uzbekistani sportsmen Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Islamic Solidarity Games bronze medalists for Uzbekistan Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games