Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov

Mukhammadkodir Toshtemirov (born 17 September 2001) is an Uzbekistani weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2023 World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also won bronze at the 2024 World Weightlifting Championships held in Bahrain.

Toshtemirov won the silver medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He also won the gold medal in his event at the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships, also held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Career

In 2018, Toshtemirov won the silver medal in the 77kg event at the Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. That year, he also competed in the men's 73kg event at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. He also competed in men's 81kg event at the 2019 World Weightlifting Championships held in Pattaya, Thailand.

Toshtemirov could have received the continental slot for Asia in the men's 81kg event to represent Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan but he was not selected as Uzbekistan was restricted to two competitors per gender due to past doping violations.

Toshtemirov won the gold medal in the men's 81kg Snatch event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey. He won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event with a total lift of 354kg.

Toshtemirov won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2022 Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Manama, Bahrain. He competed in the men's 81kg event at the 2022 World Weightlifting Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.

In September 2023, he won the bronze medal in the men's 81kg event at the World Weightlifting Championships held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A few weeks later, he won the silver medal in the men's 81kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China.