DUSHANBE, 14.06.2018 /NIAT “Khovar”/. Known Tajik athlete and Olympic champion Dilshod Nazarov won bronze medal at the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge series.

According to the National Olympic Committee of Tajikistan, the 64th championship was held in honor of the Olympic champion Janusz Kusocinski on June 8 in Polish Chorzuw.

Dilshod Nazarov, having thrown hammer at a distance of 78.18 meters, occupied the third place. The first and second places were taken by Polish athletes Wojciech Nowicki (80.63 m) and Pawel Fajdek (80.04 m).

Currently in the world’s best hammer throwers ranking Dilshod Nazarov with 229.35 points takes third place. The first place is occupied by Pawel Fajdek (Poland, 237.41 m), the second — by Wojciech Nowicki (Poland, 236.70 m), the fourth – by Bens Khalaj (Belgium, 228.66 m) and the fifth – by Marcel Lomnitskiy (Slovakia, 222.95 m).