Tajikistan Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...

first participated at the

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as an independent nation in 1996, and has sent athletes to compete in every

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since then. The nation has also competed at the

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since 2002. To date, Andrei Drygin is one of two people ever to have represented Tajikistan at the Winter Olympic Games, being his country's sole competitor in 2002, 2006, and 2010. Previously, Tajik athletes competed as part of the

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until 1988, and after the

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, Tajikistan was part of the Unified Team in 1992. The following athletes from

Tajik SSR The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic,, ''Çumhuriji Şūraviji Sotsialistiji Toçikiston''; russian: Таджикская Советская Социалистическая Республика, ''Tadzhikskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

were medallists for the

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Yuri Lobanov Yuri Lobanov (sometimes listed as Yuriy Lobanov, 29 September 1952 – 1 May 2017) was a Soviet-born Tajikistani sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won tw ...

Zebiniso Rustamova Zebiniso Sanginovna Rustamova (born 29 January 1955 in Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union) is an archer from the Soviet Union. She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the individual event wh ...

, Nellie Kim and Andrey Abduvaliyev. Tajikistan won its first Olympic medal at the

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, when

Rasul Boqiev Rasul Boqiev (also spelled as Rasul Bokiev ( tg, Расул Боқиев); born 29 September 1982) is a Tajikistani judoka who competes in the -73 kg (lightweight) category. He has won bronze medal at the Judo World Championships and a bro ...

took the bronze medal in Men's Judo - 73kg.

Dilshod Nazarov Dilshod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov ( tg, Dilşod Çamoliddinovic Nazarov, fa, دلشاد نظروف‌; russian: Дильшод Джамолиддинович Назаров, ''Dilshod Dzhamoliddinovich Nazarov'') (born 6 May 1982) is a Tajik track ...

won the first gold medal for Tajikistan at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the hammer throw. The National Olympic Committee for Tajikistan was created in 1992 and recognized by the

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Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Winter Games

Medals by sport

List of medalists

See also

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