Olympic champion Asadkhoja Muydinkhojaev caught speeding at 110 km/h in Tashkent

Muydinkhojaev, who won a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics in the 71 kg weight class, boasted about the speeding in his post before removing it. Under Uzbekistan’s Administrative Code, exceeding the speed limit by 50 km/h incurs a fine of 3.06 million UZS.

This incident comes amid rising concerns over traffic safety in Uzbekistan. In June, the Senate’s Defense and Security Committee reported that in the first five months of 2024, 65 schoolchildren were killed, and 294 others injured in road traffic accidents across the country.

Tragic incidents involving children have continued as the new school year started. On September 19, a 9-year-old girl in the Sergeli district of Tashkent was fatally hit by a speeding BYD crossover while crossing the road after exiting a bus. A day later, a student in Bukhara was killed after being struck by a car driven by an assistant to a local governor, with reports suggesting that the official was speeding. On September 18, a 19-year-old girl in Tashkent’s Shaykhontokhur district was also fatally hit by a driver speeding in a Gentra vehicle. Witnesses alleged that the driver refused to take her to the hospital, stating his car was “not meant for transporting corpses.”

These incidents highlight the growing dangers on Uzbekistan’s roads, as authorities continue to grapple with the enforcement of traffic safety laws.