Bakir Farkhutdinov

Bakir Farkhutdinov

Personal information
Born	15 May 1925 Nizhnie Chershily, Tatarstan, Russia
Died	2008 Moscow, Russia
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Medal record Competitor for the  Soviet Union World Weightlifting Championships 1954 Vienna Bantamweight European Weightlifting Championships 1954 Vienna Bantamweight

Bakir Farrakhovich Farkhutdinov (Russian: Бакир Фаррахович Фархутдинов, 15 May 1925 – 2008) was a Russian bantamweight weightlifter who was active in the 1950s–60s. In 1954 he won the Soviet, European and world titles.^[1][2]

Farkhutdinov took up weightlifting aged 24, while serving in the Soviet Army, and retired at 41. After that for about 30 years he worked as a masseur with the Moscow football clubs Spartak and Dynamo. He had a son and a daughter.^[3]

References

1. Динамо. Энциклопедия. ОЛМА Медиа Групп. 2003. p. 280. ISBN 978-5-224-04399-6.
2. Bakir Farkhutdinov. chidlovski.net
3. МАССАЖИСТ ДУБЛЯ. sport-express.ru (1 August 2000)