Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov competes in the Men's Hammer Throw Qualifying Round during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 17, 2016. ©AFP
Dilshod Nazarov of Tajikistan secured his country’s first medal of the Games by claiming the men’s hammer throw.

Competitors from Belarus and Poland took silver and bronze respectively.
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