Tajikistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Tajikistan competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics which was held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008. The country has sent thirteen competitors to the Games, who took part in five sports: boxing, judo, swimming, hammer throw and freestyle wrestling.

On August 11, Rasul Boqiev won a bronze medal in judo by beating Kichun Wang of South Korea. This was Tajikistan's first Olympic medal ever.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Yusup Abdusalomov	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 84 kg
Bronze	Rasul Boqiev	Judo	Men's 73 kg

Archery

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Albina Kamaletdinova	Individual	547	63	Yun Ok-Hee (KOR) (2) L 102-109	Did not advance

Athletics

Men

Athlete	Events	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Dilshod Nazarov	Hammer throw	75.35	5 q					76.54	9

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Sherali Dostiev	Light flyweight	Hernandez (CUB) L 12-1	Did not advance
Anvar Yunusov	Flyweight	Chauke (RSA) W 9-1	Vieria (BRA) W 12-6	Jongjohor (THA) L 1-8	Did not advance
Djakhon Kurbanov	Light heavyweight	Atoev (UZB) W 11-3	Sivolija-Jelica (CRO) W 8-1	Shynaliyev (KAZ) DSQ	Did not advance

Judo

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First Repechage Round	Repechage Quarterfinals	Repechage Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rasul Bokiev	−73 kg		Kibanza (COD) W 0210 - 0000	Bilodid (UKR) W 1000 - 0000	Si (CHN) W 1110 - 0001	Wang (KOR) L 0001 - 0010				Van Tichelt (BEL) W 0011 - 0000
Sherali Bozorov	−81 kg	Denanyoh (TOG) L 0010 - 0011	Did not advance
Negmatuillo Asranqulov	−90 kg	Mammadov (AZE) L 0000 - 0011	Did not advance

Shooting

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Sergey Babikov	10 m air pistol	574	31st	Did not advance		31st

Swimming

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semiinal		Final	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time
Alisher Chingizov	Men's 50m freestyle	29.10	6	Did not advance			86
Katerina Izmaylova	Women's 50m freestyle	32.09	8	Did not advance			80

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Nizom Sangov	-69 kg	115	27	135	24	250	24

Wrestling

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	1/8 Final	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Round 1	Repechage Round 2	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Vitalij Korjakin	−60 kg		Yumoto (JPN) L 3-6	Did not advance
Jousop Abdusalomov	−84 kg		Kumar (AUS) W 8-0	Danko (UKR) W 7-0	Balci (TUR) W 4-0			Mindorashvili (GEO) L 3-9