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Tymur Taymazov (Russian/Ukrainian: Тимур Таймазов,Ossetian: Таймазты Барисы фырт Тимур, born 8 September, 1970) is a former Ossetian-Ukrainian weightlifter, Olympic champion and two-time World Champion.

He was born in Nogir, North Ossetia. Taymazov has a younger brother, Artur, who was also a 2004 Olympic Champion, in the sport- freestyle wrestling 120 kg weight category, but had gold medals for 2008 and 2012 withdrawn for doping offences. Timur is a member of the Central Sports Club of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Career

Olympics

He won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.[1]

He participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics after taking a year-long break in 1995.[2] After the snatch portion of the competition, he was in the third place, behind Nicu Vlad (by 2.5 kg) and Sergey Srystov (by bodyweight). In the clean & jerk portion of the competition, Taymasov was the last lifter to attempt a lift, with his first lift of 227.5 kg being successful, after which, he moved into the lead. Srystov and Vlad were unable to make their next lifts and Taymasov had won. After clinching the gold medal, he attempted and successfully made a new Olympic Record clean & jerk of 235.0 kg,[3] bringing his total to 430.0 kg.[4]

Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank
1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 Rank
Olympic Games
1992 Spain Barcelona, Spain 100 kg 180.0 185.0 190.0 3 217.5 227.5 227.5 3 402.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1996 United States Atlanta, United States 108 kg 190.0 195.0 197.5 3 227.5 235.0 240.0 1 430.0 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References

  1. ^ "1992 Summer Olympics - Barcelona, Spain - Weightlifting" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 18, 2008).
  2. ^ "Taimazov sets world and Olympic record in weightlifting". Ukrainian Weekly. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  3. ^ "OLYMPIC RECORDS". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  4. ^ "1996 Summer Olympics - Atlanta, United States - Weightlifting" Archived 2007-09-05 at the Wayback Machine - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 18, 2008).
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