Islamic Solidarity Games: Uzbekistan ranked second in team standings with 158 medals

The delegation of Uzbekistan, which participated in 24 sports with 268 athletes, took the 2nd place in team standings with 51 gold, 42 silver and 65 bronze medals.

Team standings:

ꞏ Turkey 145-107-89
ꞏ Uzbekistan 51-42-65
ꞏ Iran 39-44-50
ꞏ Azerbaijan 29-36-34
ꞏ Kazakhstan 27-23-39
ꞏ Morocco 15-13-34
ꞏ Indonesia 13-14-29
ꞏ Bahrain 9-7-7
ꞏ Kyrgyzstan 8-8-15
ꞏ Algeria 7-12-23

Weightlifters (15-3-6) brought the most gold medals to the national team. Also, our athletes were among the prize winners in judo (6-2-5), wrestling (4-4-10), athletics (4-2-2), taekwondo (4-0-4), kickboxing (2-7-12), rhythmic gymnastics (2-6-1), swimming (2-5-5), gymnastics (2-4-2), fencing (2-3-9), para swimming (2-2-2), cycling (2- 2-1), karate (2-0-1), para cycling (1-2-3), para athletics (1-0-0), table tennis (0-0-1) and shooting (0-0 -1). 

Ruslan Nuriddinov, Akbar Jurayev, Sarvar Zafarjonov and Tursunoy Jabborova won gold medals in weightlifting, and Olga Zabelinskaya won three gold medals in cycling.

In para swimming, Azizbek Boynazarov won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze; in weightlifting, Adhamjon Ergashev bagged 2 gold and 1 silver for the delegation. 

On the last day of the competition, 47-year-old legendary gymnast Oksana Chusovitina also secured a gold medal.