Uzbekistan at the Olympics

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Uzbekistan first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then. Previously, Uzbek athletes competed as part of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Uzbekistan was part of the Unified Team in 1992. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Armen Bagdasarov earned the distinction of becoming the first athlete to win an Olympic medal for independent Uzbekistan, claiming silver in the men's judo middleweight division. Four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Muhammad Abdullaev made history as the first Uzbek athlete to win Olympic gold, triumphing in the men’s light-welterweight boxing event. In the Winter Games, Uzbekistan debuted at the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer. During those Games, Lina Cheryazova captured gold in the women's freestyle skiing aerials, becoming both Uzbekistan’s first Winter Olympic medalist and the country’s first Olympic...

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