Ulugbek Rashitov (born 23 March 2002) is an

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

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practitioner. In 2021, he won the gold medal in the 68 kg event at the

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held in

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, Japan. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 58 kg event at the Military World Games held in

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, China.

Career

In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 55 kg event at the Asian Junior Taekwondo Championships. In 2018, he won the silver medal in the boys' 48 kg event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in

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, Argentina. He represented Uzbekistan at the

in Tokyo, Japan. He won gold, beating

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of Great Britain in the final.At the

, he competed in the 68 kg weight category. In qualifying, he defeated Seydou Fofana from Mali In the 1/8 finals, he defeated two-time Olympic medalist from

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Lee Dae Hong. In the semi-finals, he went to dayan against Nedzad Husic (

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) and won a landslide victory with a score of 28:5. In the final, he defeated the British taekwondo player Bradley Sinden with a score of 34:29, winning the first gold medal at the Olympic

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Games in the history of the Uzbekistan national team.

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Career

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