He finished tenth at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, won the gold medal at the 2003 Asian Championships in Manila in a personal best score of 8021 points, finished seventeenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and won a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
He finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha. Being among the leaders of the Uzbek national team, he successfully passed the selection for the Olympic Games in Beijing - this time he failed all attempts in the long jump and withdrew from the competition after three stages.[1][2]