Ruslan Nurudinov

Ruslan Shamilyevich Nurudinov was born on 24 November 1991 in Andijan Region. He is an Uzbek weightlifter whose first international win came at the 2009 Asian Junior Championships in the UAE; in 2011 he won world silver in the snatch, and in 2012 he became Asian champion.

In 2013 he won the 105 kg class at the World Championships in Wroclaw (snatch 190 kg, clean and jerk 235 kg, total 425 kg), becoming Uzbekistan's first world weightlifting champion. The same year he also won the Asian Championships and the World Universiade. At the 2014 World Championships in Almaty he set a world record in the clean and jerk (239 kg) and took silver in the total (432 kg).

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he won gold with a snatch of 194 kg, an Olympic-record clean and jerk of 237 kg and a total of 431 kg. In 2018 he took bronze in the clean and jerk at the World Championships in Ashgabat (109 kg class). He was world champion in 2022 in Bogota (total 397 kg) and in December 2024 in Manama (total 424 kg, with a world-record 242 kg clean and jerk), won world silver in 2023 (407 kg) and Asian gold in 2023 in Jinju (405 kg). By a presidential decree of 30 October 2013 he was given the honorary title Pride of Uzbekistan.