Career
He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he was stopped in the second round of the men"s flyweight division (– 51 kg) by Russia"s Georgy Balakshin. Rakhimzhanov qualified for the Athens Games by ending up in first place in the 2nd AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Karachi, Pakistan. In the final he defeated Indonesia"s Bonyx Yusak Saweho.