Career
Sharipov represented Uzbekistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men"s half-lightweight class (66 kg). He defeated Spain"s Óscar Peñas and Algeria"s Mounir Benamadi in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match, by a waza-ari awasete ippon (two points), to Japan"s Masato Uchishiba. Unfortunately, he finished only in fifth place, after losing out the bronze medal match to North of Korea"s Pak Chol-Minister, who successfully scored a waza-ari awasete ippon and a kesa-gatame (scarf hold), one second before the five-minute period had ended.