Dilnoza Rakhmatova

Dilnoza Rakhmatova is an Uzbek sprint canoeist who races the 200 m and 500 m in singles and pairs. She was born on 7 February 1998 and is a member of the Uzbekistan national team, training under Rustam Mirzadiyarov since 2012.

In 2015 she won bronze in the 200 m and silver in the pairs at the Junior World Championships in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal. In 2017 she won the 200 m gold and 500 m silver with Nilufar Zokirova at the Asian Championships in Shanghai, and was awarded the Zulfiya State Prize. At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta she took silver in the 500 m pairs with Zokirova and bronze in the 200 m singles.

In 2019 she won the 200 m pairs gold at the Junior World Championships in Pitești, Romania (43.340 s) and bronze in the 200 m pairs at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary (46.60 s); a fifth place in the 500 m earned a Tokyo Olympic place. At the Tokyo Olympics she advanced from the quarter-final to the semi-final in the 500 m pairs and was eliminated in the quarter-final of the 200 m singles.