"The national team of Uzbekistan has achieved unprecedented success at the Paris Olympics," the portal noteslagazetteaz.fr "With an impressive total of 13 medals - 8 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze - Uzbekistan rose to 13th place among the 206 countries that participated in the Olympic Games."
It is noted that Uzbekistan dominated in men's boxing, winning five gold medals out of seven: Hasanboy Dusmatov in the weight category up to 51 kg, Abdumalik Khalokov in the weight category up to 57 kg, Asadhuja Muidinhuzhaev in the weight category up to 71 kg, Lazizbek Mullazhonov in the weight category up to 80 kg and Bahodir Jalolov in the +92 kg category. Hasanboy Dusmatov and Bahodir Jalolov won their Olympic titles for the second time, which was a historic achievement for Uzbek athletes.
"Another athletic feat was accomplished by Ulugbek Rashitov, who also won his second Olympic taekwondo title. In freestyle wrestling, Razambek Jamalov won a gold medal in the weight category up to 74 kg, the portal writes. "An unforgettable moment is the coronation of 26-year-old judoka Diyora Keldiyorova, who became the first Uzbek athlete to win an Olympic gold medal, successively defeating Japanese Uta Abe, Frenchwoman Amandine Buchard and, finally, Maria Krasniki from Kosovo in the final in the weight category up to 51 kg."
It is emphasized that at the Olympic Games in Paris, Uzbekistan was also represented in several new sports, including diving, archery and women's wrestling, which demonstrated the country's growing sports capabilities. The qualification of the national under-23 football team for the Olympics highlighted the country's progress in team sports.
The 2024 Summer Olympics allowed the international public to discover in the face of Uzbekistan a country with exceptional sporting potential, which will be impatient to see in 4 years in Los Angeles, sums up "lagazetteaz.fr ".
The article "India is missing from the leaders, and Uzbekistan is surprised ... What does the medal table at the Olympic Games say about the sports strategies of the countries?", published in the newspaper Le Figaro, notes that if the ranking of countries with the most medals in Paris is dominated by major world powers, then the results of a number of other countries surprised many. Thus, according to the newspaper, Uzbekistan's winning of the 13th place in the team competition with 13 medals, including 8 gold medals, was the result of a very specific strategy of the country's sports policy.
The newspaper cites the opinion of analyst Lucas Aubin, who believes that "some small countries have adopted a strategy of over-specialization, investing resources in several sports in which their athletes initially excelled, so as not to disperse their efforts into many different sports, risking not succeed anywhere. Uzbekistan is cited as an example, as well as Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia, which have achieved positive results in the development of high-performance sports in power sports.
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