Nijat Rahimov

Nijat Rahimov

Personal information
Born	13 August 1993 Baku, Azerbaijan
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Country	Azerbaijan  Kazakhstan
Sport	Weightlifting
Event(s)	77 kg
Medal record Representing the  Kazakhstan Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro –77 kg World Championships 2015 Houston –77 kg Representing the  Azerbaijan Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore –69 kg Junior World Championships 2013 Lima –77 kg

Nijat Rahimov (Azerbaijani: Nicat Rəhimov; born 13 August, 1993 in Baku, Azerbaijan) is a Naturalized Kazakhstani weightlifter who formerly represented his birthplace Azerbaijan.^[1]

Career

He won gold for Azerbaijan at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics^[2] and silver at the 2013 Junior World Weightlifting Championships.^[3]

At the 2013 Summer Universiade Rahimov was a flag bearer of Azerbaijan.^[4] Rahimov was suspended for 2 years from June 2013 after testing positive for anabolic steroids. An out of competition doping test found prior use of oxandrolone and dehydromethyltestosterone.^[5]

Rahimov won gold for Kazakhstan at the 2016 Olympics in the 77kg weight class, simultaneously setting a world record in clean and jerk (214 kg).^[6]

References

1. Olimpiya çempionumuz Qazaxıstan vətəndaşlığını qəbul etdi apasport.az
2. Azerbaijan wins fourth gold at Youth Olympic Games
3. 39 th Junior World Championships
4. Sports World University Games start in Kazan
5. "Sanctioned Athletes / Athlete Support Personnel". iwf.net. International Weightlifting Federation. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
6. "Weightlifting recap: Nijat Rahimov sets world record, steals gold from Lyu Xiaojun". Nbcolympics.com.