At the Asian Games in Aktau 2026 in Kazakhstan, Uzbek judokas won five additional medals. In particular, Fotimahon Tursunboeva in the under 48 kg category and Nizomiddinkhodja Toshpulatov in the under 73 kg category won gold medals.
Bronze medals were won by Halimajon Kurbonova (under 48 kg), Mukhaiyo Akhmatova (under 57 kg), and Sarvinoz Husanova (under 63 kg).
Tursunboeva won all four matches in the tournament. In the round of 16, she defeated Zera Otepkaliy from Kazakhstan with an ippon, and then beat another Kazakh judoka, Sabina Yuldashbekova, in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Tursunboeva also defeated her compatriot Halimajon Kurbonova with an ippon. In the final, she faced Simbat Tagay from Kazakhstan and won, scoring two waza-ari points.
Kurbonova also reached the semifinals in the under 48 kg category, defeating two opponents from Kazakhstan: Aidana Hasenkizi with two waza-ari points and Iyanat Zhubatkan with a waza-ari. After losing to Tursunboeva in the semifinals, she defeated Diana Burkeeva from Kazakhstan with two waza-ari points in the bronze medal match. Thus, Uzbekistan secured two medals in the under 48 kg category.
Toshpulatov also won all four of his matches in the under 73 kg category. He defeated Nikita Mazur from Kyrgyzstan with an ippon in the round of 16, and then successively defeated three judokas from Azerbaijan. In the quarterfinals, he beat Nariman Mirzaev with an ippon, and in the semifinals, Rufat Shovlatov. In the final, Toshpulatov defeated Kamran Suleymanov with two waza-ari points.
In the under 57 kg category, Akhmatova began her campaign with an ippon victory over Ayayul Kalmyrza from Kazakhstan, and then beat Inkar Tulepbergenova with a waza-ari. She lost in the semifinals to Dina Mukhanbet from Kazakhstan with a yuko in a match that lasted 9 minutes and 50 seconds. In the fight for bronze, Akhmatova defeated her compatriot Nilufar Ermagambetova with an ippon.
Husanova started her campaign in the under 63 kg category with a quarterfinal victory over Nura Zhenis from Kazakhstan. In the semifinals, she lost to Samalai Ergalieva from Kazakhstan with a waza-ari. In the bronze medal match, Husanova defeated Valeria Postnikova from Kazakhstan with an ippon.
As previously reported, Uzbekistan's Olympic champion Diyora Keldiorova also won gold at the Asian Games in Aktau 2026, defeating an Azerbaijani judoka in the final.
