Bakir Farkhutdinov

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.

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