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Personal information | |
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Born | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 10 August 1995
Sport | |
Country | Uzbekistan |
Sport | Track and field |
Event | 100 metres |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | 100 m: 11.31 200 m: 23.17 400 m: 56.29 |
Nigina Shavkatovna Sharipova (Uzbek: Нигина Шавкатовна Шарипова; born 10 August 1995) is an Uzbekistani sprinter.[1] She competed in the women's 100 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2][3][4] In 2017, she won the silver medal in the 100 and bronze in the 200 metres at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, Azerbaijan.[5][6] She also represented Uzbekistan in the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games competing in the Indoor athletics event.
In 2019, at the Asian Athletics Championships in Doha (Qatar), at a distance of 100 meters with a score of 11.41 seconds, she again took only fourth place, losing bronze to the Chinese Wei Yongli.[7]