World final appearances
Individual Ice World Championship
World Team Cup
- 1967 -
Malmö, Malmö Stadion (with Igor Plekhanov / Boris Samorodov / Viktor Trofimov / Farid Szajnurov) - 3rd= - 19pts (2)
| Born | 27 January 1941 Shatura, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union |
|---|---|
| Died | 31 July 1993 (aged 52) Sochi, Russia |
| Career history | |
| 1967-69 | Bashkortostan |
| Individual honours | |
| 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973 | Ice World Champion |
| Team honours | |
| 1967 | Speedway World Team Cup bronze medal |
Gabdrakhman Kadyrov (1941-1993) was an international speedway rider from the Soviet Union. [1] His nationality was described as being a Tatar and his mother came from Bashkortostan but he was born in Shatura. [2]
Kadyrov was one of the all-time great Ice Speedway riders. He won the inaugural Individual Ice Speedway World Championship in 1966 and went on to be the champion of the world six times in total, after winning again in 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 and 1973. [3] [4] [5]
He won a silver medal at the Speedway World Team Cup in the 1967 Speedway World Team Cup. [6] He was known as Gab and earned the nickname 'The Beatle' by his fellow Soviet riders because of his hair cut resembling The Beatles at the time. He was a metal craftsman by trade. [2]
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