Timour Taimazov
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He was born in Nogir, North Ossetia. Taimazov 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2004 Olympic Champion, in the sport- freestyle wrestling 120 kg weight category, but had gold medals for 2008 and 2012 withdrawn for doping offences. Timour 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 | ||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | |||||
| Olympic Games | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | SpainScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Barcelona, Spain | 100 kg | 180.0 | 185.0 | 3 | 217.5 | 3 | 402.5 | Script error: No such module "sort". | |||
| 1996 | United StatesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Atlanta, United States | 108 kg | 190.0 | 195.0 | 3 | 227.5 | 235.0 | 1 | 430.0 | Script error: No such module "sort". | ||
References
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- ↑ "1992 Summer Olympics - Barcelona, Spain - Weightlifting" Template:Webarchive - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 18, 2008).
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External links
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Prigorodny District, North Ossetia–Alania
- Russian emigrants to Ukraine
- Ukrainian people of Ossetian descent
- Armed Forces (sports society) sportspeople in Ukraine
- Soviet male weightlifters
- Ukrainian male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for the Unified Team
- Olympic weightlifters for Ukraine
- Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Ukraine
- Olympic silver medalists for the Unified Team
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Ossetian sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Naturalized citizens of Russia
- Sportspeople from North Ossetia–Alania
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists