Saleem Farooqi
Pakistani cyclist
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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]
FullnameSaleem Mahmood Farooqi
Born5 August 1940
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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.
