Farhat Mustafin
Farchat Achatowitsch Mustafin (also Farkhad or Farhat Mustafin ) ( born September 7, 1950) is a former Soviet wrestler, multiple world and European champion and winner of the bronze medal at the 1976 Olympic Games in Greco-Roman Bantamweight.
Career
Farchat Mustafin began as a teenager with the rings and was a member of the Soviet armed forces at the beginning of the 1970s the central Sports Club of the Army ( CSKA ) delegates in Moscow because his extraordinary potential had been discovered for the sport of wrestling. In Moscow he was by his trainer W. Burylin a world-class athletes in Greco-Roman. Shaped style.
In the years 1973 and 1974 by the Soviet Farchat Wrestling Federation to the big international tournament in Klippan Sweden, where in the spring met each year, much of the world's elite at a location determination. Farchat won in two years, this great tournament in the bantamweight. He was then first used in 1974 at an international championship, namely the European Championships 1974 in Madrid. Farchat won there with six superior victories equal the European title. In the autumn of 1974, he also launched at the World Championships in Katowice. There he was defeated in a preliminary round fight quite surprising against Sweden Per Lindholm. Since Lindholm but lost to Ivan Frgić from Yugoslavia, had won against the Mustafin and therefore excluded prematurely, Farchat Mustafin still won the world title.
Also at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein Farchat had been defeated, this time against Ivan Frgić. So it was enough for him only for 2nd place in the bantamweight. Indemnification he kept it again at the World Championships 1975 in Minsk. He won five fights and defeated it also Pertti Ukkola from Finland and Józef Lipień from Poland.
After Farchat Mustafin had also won at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad, he went as a hot favorite for the Olympic Games in Montreal. There he met again on Ivan Frgić and lost against this on points. He also lost to the ligand is located in super shape Pertti Ukkola and had to settle for the bronze medal. Olympic champion Pertti Ukkola.
Both at the European Championships in 1977 in Bursa as well as at the World Championships the same year in Gothenburg won Farchat all his fights until each one exception. At both events, he lost in the final battle against Pertti Ukkola and therefore was both times only second behind winner Ukkola.
In 1978, Farchat Mustafin because of weight problems in the next higher weight class, the featherweight. That it for him in this weight class but are difficult would prevail, he learned the same in the Soviet championships this year, as he finished in the spring weight behind Boris Kramarenko, Nelson Dawidjan, Ivan Korchagin and Raidi Abramschwili only fifth place. For this reason it was used this year even with no international championships.
In 1979 he was employed at the World Championships in San Diego in the featherweight, disappointed there but, as he was defeated after two wins against Abdurrahim Kuzu from the U.S. and István Tóth of Hungary. The International Championships of 1980, including the Olympic Games in Moscow were therefore accepted without Farchat. Nevertheless, he also tried to come in 1981 international honors. He went at the European Championships in Gothenburg at the start, won five fights there and came after a defeat by Ryszard Świerad from Poland to 3rd place.
He was then employed in any other international championships more.
Aliya Mustafina, a daughter Mustafins, is a successful gymnast. Among other things, it was the London 2012 Olympic Champion on the uneven bars.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, then to 57 kg or 62 kg body weight)