Tymur Taymazov

Personal information
Born	8 September 1970 (1970-09-08) (age 53)
Medal record Men's Weightlifting Representing  Ukraine Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta – 108 kg World Championships 1993 Melbourne – 108 kg 1994 Istanbul – 108 kg European Championships 1993 Sofia – 108 kg 1994 Sokolov – 108 kg Representing the  Unified Team Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona – 100 kg European Championships 1992 Szekszard – 100 kg

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who was also 2004 Olympic Champion in freestyle wrestling 120 kg weight category, but had gold medals for 2008 and 2012 withdrawn for doping offences.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 received a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.^[1]

He participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics after taking a break year long break in 1995.^[2] After the snatch portion of the competition, he was in 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 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	Barcelona, Spain	100 kg	180.0	185.0	190.0	3	217.5	227.5	227.5	3	402.5
1996	Atlanta, United States	108 kg	190.0	195.0	197.5	3	227.5	235.0	240.0	1	430.0