Personal information | |
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Nationality | Uzbekistan |
Born | 22 October 2000 |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Long Jump |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests | Long jump: 8.22m (Geneva, 2023) NR |
Anvar Anvarov (born 22 October 2000) is a long jumper from Uzbekistan. He is Uzbek national record holder, and has won national titles both indoors and outdoors. [1]
In August 2022, he won gold at the delayed 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya. [2] In September 2022, he won silver at the Central Asian Athletics Championship in Samarkand. [3]
In June 2023, Anvarov set a new Uzbek national record in the long jump, leaping a distance of 8.22 metres in Geneva. This surpassed the previous national record set in 1985. [4] [5] In July 2023 he finished fourth in the long jump at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok with a leap of 8.07 metres. [6] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023. [7] In October 2023, he finished fourth at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou with a leap of 8.01 metres. [8]
In June 2024, he tied with Czech Petr Meindlschmid with a leap of 7.92 meters to lead the long jump at the Josef Odložil Memorial event in Prague. [9]
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