Boris Shakhlin

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Boris Shakhlin was a Soviet artistic gymnast and multiple Olympic champion, renowned as one of the sport’s dominant figures in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Olympic gymnast
Soviet athlete
artistic gymnast
human
awardReceived Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
causeOfDeath heart disease
competedIn 1956 Summer Olympics
1960 Summer Olympics
1964 Summer Olympics
countryOfCitizenship Soviet Union
countryRepresented Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1932-01-27
dateOfDeath 2008-05-30
discipline men’s artistic gymnastics
era 1950s
1960s
familyName Shakhlin
givenName Boris
hallOfFameInduction International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
hallOfFameInductionYear 2002
height about 1.70 m
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
memberOfSportsTeam Soviet Union men’s national gymnastics team
nativeLanguage Russian
notableAchievement multiple Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics
one of the dominant male gymnasts of the late 1950s and early 1960s
occupation gymnast
OlympicGoldMedalInEvent horizontal bar
men’s individual all-around
parallel bars
pommel horse
rings
team combined exercises
vault
OlympicMedal Olympic bronze medal
Olympic gold medal
Olympic silver medal
placeOfBirth Ishim
Russian SFSR NERFINISHED
Tyumen Oblast
placeOfDeath Kyiv
surface form: Kiev

Ukraine
sexOrGender male
sport artistic gymnastics
trainedIn Kyiv
surface form: Kiev

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1956 Summer Olympics featuredAthlete Boris Shakhlin