Timur Taymazov

Timour Taimazov (Russian/,, born 8 September, 1970) is a former Ossetian-Ukrainian weightlifter, Olympic champion and two-time World Champion.

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2004 Olympic Champion, in the sport- freestyle wrestling 120 kg weight category, but had gold medals for 2008 and 2012 withdrawn for doping offences.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.

He participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics after taking a year-long break in 1995. 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, bringing his total to 430.0 kg. Major results

Year Venue Weight Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total Rank 1 2 3 Rank 1 2 3 RankOlympic Games1992 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