Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin (; 27 January 1932 – 30 May 2008) was a

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who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won a total of 13 medals including seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He held the record for most Olympic medals by a male athlete record until gymnast

Nikolai Andrianov Nikolai Yefimovich Andrianov (; 14 October 1952 – 21 March 2011) was a Soviet and Russian gymnast. He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 (7 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 3 bronze medals) until Michael Phelps surpass ...

won his 14th and 15th medals at the

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. He also won 14 medals at the World Championships.

Career

Shakhlin was born in

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. He began gymnastics at the age of 12. According to the ''

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'', he "set a career record of 10 individual titles in the world championships and also won gold medals at three successive

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. His tally of seven gold, four silver, and two bronze Olympic medals placed him among the most-decorated at the Games". Shakhlin retired from competition at the age of 35 after suffering a

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. He joined the FIG Men's Technical Committee in 1968 and continued to work on the Committee until 1992. In the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he worked as a lecturer at the

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."Boris Shakhlin, 1932-2008"
Amanda Turner ''International Gymnast,'' May 30, 2008 He was awarded the Red Banner of Labor in 1956 and the

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in 1960. He was named an honorary citizen both in his birth town Ishim and in Kyiv where lived for many years. In 2002, he was inducted into the

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. He died on 30 May 2008.

Philatelia

The Mongol Post issued a postage stamp - Boris Shakhlin (No.525, 1969).

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