Ulugbek Rashitov

Ulugbek Ismatullayevich Rashitov was born on 23 March 2002 in Tashkent. He is an Uzbek taekwondo athlete who won silver in the 48 kg class at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, losing the final to Russia's Dmitry Shishko. In 2019 he won gold at the Asian Junior Championships (55 kg) and at the Military World Games in Wuhan (58 kg), beating China's Liang Yushuai in the final.

He qualified for the Tokyo Games at the 2021 Asian Olympic qualifier in Amman. At the 2020 Olympics he won gold in the 68 kg class, beating two-time Olympic medallist Lee Dae-hoon of South Korea in the round of 16, Nedzad Husic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 28-5 in the semi-final and Britain's Bradly Sinden 34-29 in the final - Uzbekistan's first Olympic taekwondo gold. He won gold in the same class again at the 2024 Olympics, and according to Russian Wikipedia is the only man in taekwondo history to be Olympic champion more than once.

In 2023 he took bronze at the World Championships in Baku (68 kg), losing the semi-final to South Korea's Jin Ho-jun, and won the Grand Prix in Italy, beating Hungary's Levente Mark Jozsa in the final. He received the El-yurt hurmati order in 2024 and holds the title Pride of Uzbekistan.