Rinat Farkhoutdinov (born December 13, 1975) is a Russian-born

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

who competed internationally for Japan. With partner Nakako Tsuzuki, he is a three-time Japanese national champion and competed three times at the

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and

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. They were unable to compete during the latter half of the 2001/2002 Olympic season due to an injury to Tsuzuki. Their partnership ended following that season. Farkhoutdinov moved to

Euless, Texas Euless ( ) is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Dallas and Fort Worth. Euless is part of the Mid-Cities region between Dallas and Fort Worth. In 2020 Census, the population of Euless was 61,032. The population of t ...

, where he began working as a coach and choreographer. He has coached Julia Golovina / Oleg Voiko, among others.

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Russian male ice dancers Japanese male ice dancers Living people 1975 births Sportspeople from Perm, Russia People from Euless, Texas {{Russia-figure-skating-bio-stub