Ulugbek Rashitov

Ulugbek Rashitov (born 23 March 2002) is an Uzbek taekwondo practitioner. He won the gold medal in the Men's 68 kg event at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 58kg event at the Military World Games held in Wuhan, China.

Career

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

Rashitov represented Uzbekistan at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He won gold, beating Bradly Sinden of Great Britain in the final. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, 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 South Korea Lee Dae-Hoon. In the semi-finals, he went to dayan against Nedžad Husić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 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 Taekwondo Games in the history of the Uzbekistan national team.

The taekwondo athlete and two-time Olympic champion Ulugbek Rashitov has been suspended for two years from all competitions for an Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV), the International Testing Agency (ITA), on behalf of World Taekwondo (WT) said. Rashitov committed three whereabouts failures within a 12-month period. The athlete did not challenge the ADRV and agreed with the consequences proposed by the ITA. Accordingly, the case was resolved via an acceptance of consequences.