Saleem Farooqi
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| Full name | Saleem Mahmood Farooqi | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 August 1940 | ||||||||||||||
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Saleem Farooqi (born 5 August 1940) is a Pakistani former cyclist. He competed in four events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1]
At the 1956 Olympics, Farooqi, then 16 years and 121 days old, was the youngest of the 161 competitors at the cycling events. The oldest, Australia's Jim Nestor, was 36 years, 331 days old.[2]
Farooqi also represented Pakistan at the 1958 Asian Games, held in Tokyo, Japan, where he and fellow Pakistani cyclist Muhammad Shah Rukh won the silver medal in the Cycling Track Tanden event at the Korakuen Velodrome on May 27, 1958.
References
[edit]- ^ "Saleem Farooqi Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ^ "Cycling at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". 17 April 2020. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Saleem Farooqi at ProCyclingStats
- Saleem Farooqi at Olympedia
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