Safiya Burkhanova
Sofiya Burkhanova is an Uzbekistani shot putter.
She came third at the 2008 Asian Junior Athletics Championships. She threw over seventeen metres for the first time in 2009, winning the Uzbek national title in the process. This performance gained her selection for the 2010 Asian Games, where she finished seventh in the final. The following year she placed fourth at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships. She went unbeaten on the Asian Grand Prix in 2012, with three straight victories. She threw a personal best of in Almaty that year.
Burkhanova came close to the medals again at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships, this time placing fifth in the shot put. She won her first continental title at the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, where her throw of sufficed for the victory.
