Tajikistan repeated their Olympic qualification performance with three quotas
Tajikistan qualified three boxers for the Paris Olympic Games which is the same performance from their side as in the last Tokyo edition.
Tajikistan separated from the Soviet Union in 1991 and attended first as an independent nation in the Olympic Games five years later in Atlanta. Tajikistan attended six-times in the boxing events of the Olympic Games in almost all of the editions between 1996 and 2021 excluding in Sydney.
Khurshed Khasanov was the lone Tajik who qualified for the Atlanta 1996 Olympics in boxing while Bakhritdin Rakhimov, Rustam Saidov and Lazizbek Zokirov were all near to earn spots for the Games but failed their last steps in the Qualification Events.
Tajikistan claimed its first Olympic boxing medal in 2012 when their young female boxer, Mavzuna Chorieva has done that historic performance. Boxing, wrestling and judo are the most successful sports in Tajikistan, all of these acquired medals in the Olympic Games between 2008 and 2016. Their peak appearance in boxing was the London 2012 Olympic Games when four Tajiks qualified for the event.
Three Tajik boxers qualified for the last Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, among them Bakhodur Usmonov (63kg) won his opening preliminary bout in Japan. His teammates, 24-year-old Shabbos Negmatulloev (81kg) and Siyovush Zukhurov (+91kg) earned also spots for Tokyo but lost their first contests.
Tajikistan impressed in the first qualification event at the Asian Games where their boxers achieved two quotas for Paris. Mizhgona Samadova and Davlat Boltayev both have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and secured their flight tickets to the French capital. Boltayev not only qualified for Paris but he won the heavyweight (92kg) at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Bakhodur Usmonov was their next hero at the 1st World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event, the 27-year-old light welterweight (63.5kg) boxer advanced to the semi-finals. Usmonov, the 2019 Asian Champion and the World Championships bronze medallist, qualified for his second Olympics after Tokyo.
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