Boris Chabalowitsch Schuchow

Boris Chabalowitsch Schuchow (Russian Борис Хабалович Шухов; born May 8, 1947 in Kódyma , Ukraine ) is a former Soviet cyclist and Olympic champion in cycling .

Athletic career

He had his first international success as runner-up on the International Presidency Turkey Tour in 1969. In 1972, Zhukov (also Shukov) was Olympic champion in the team time trial with the selection of the Soviet Union (with Valery Jardy , Valery Likhachev and Gennady Komnatov ) at the Summer Olympics in Munich .
As early as the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , he competed with the Soviet team in the team time trial, which was 9th at the time. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1970 he and his team won the team time trial title (with Jardy, Likhachev and Vladimir Sokolov ), then in 1973 the silver medal. Also in 1973 he won the overall standings of the Ruban Granitier Breton stage race (Tour de Bretagne Cycliste - Trophée des Granitiers) and the Tour of Yugoslavia .

Web links

• Boris Chabalowitsch Schuchow in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Boris Chabalowitsch Schuchow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 3 .