Andrey Abduvaliyev

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Medal record
Men's athletics
Gold	1992 Barcelona	Hammer
World Championships
Gold	1993 Stuttgart	Hammer
Gold	1995 Gothenburg	Hammer

Andrey Abduvaliyev (born June 30, 1966 in Leningrad) is a former hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. After competing for USSR he chose to represent Tajikistan when USSR was dissolved. In 1997 he changed his nationality to Uzbekistan, thus becoming one of the very few athletes to compete for three states.

His personal best was 83.46m in 1990, at the time World and European record; with the collapse of the Soviet Union (a member of the European Athletic Association), his decision of competing for Tajikistan (a member of the Asian Athletics Federation) left him in the paradoxical condition of being the world record holder, but not record holder of his continent.

[edit] Major achievements

Year	Tournament	Venue	Result
1992	Summer Olympics	Barcelona, Spain	1st
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	1st
1995	World Championships	Göteborg, Sweden	1st
	Central Asian Games	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	1st
1998	Asian Championships	Fukuoka, Japan	1st
	Asian Games	Bangkok, Thailand	2nd

[edit] External link

IAAF profile for Andrey Abduvaliyev

Olympic champions in men's hammer throw
1900: John Flanagan \| 1904: John Flanagan \| 1908: John Flanagan \| 1912: Matt McGrath \| 1920: Patrick Ryan \| 1924: Fred Tootell \| 1928: Pat O'Callaghan \| 1932: Pat O'Callaghan \| 1936: Karl Hein \| 1948: Imre Németh \| 1952: József Csermák \| 1956: Harold Connolly \| 1960: Vasily Rudenkov \| 1964: Romuald Klim \| 1968: Gyula Zsivótzky \| 1972: Anatoliy Bondarchuk \| 1976: Yuriy Sedykh \| 1980: Yuriy Sedykh \| 1984: Juha Tiainen \| 1988: Sergey Litvinov \| 1992: Andrey Abduvaliyev \| 1996: Balázs Kiss \| 2000: Szymon Ziółkowski \| 2004: Koji Murofushi

Olympic champions in men's hammer throw