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| Born | 12 February 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best(s) | Shot put: 17.35m (Tashkent, 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Malika Nasriddinova (born 12 February 2004) is an Uzbekistani shot putter. She is a multiple time national champion. [1]
She won her first Uzbek national titles, both indoors and outdoors, in 2022. [2] [3] That year, she improved her personal best in the shot put from 15.55m in May 2022 to a 16.13m lifetime best in August 2022 to qualify for the final at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia at the age of 18 year-old, before placing eighth in the final. [4] [5] [6]
She won a silver medal at the 2023 Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Yecheon, South Korea with a distance of 15.76 metres in April 2023. [7] She finished in sixth place at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok in July 2023. [8]
She won the silver medal in the shot put at the 2024 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Tehran in February 2024. [9]
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