Boris Budnikow, who sailed with VS Moscow, took part in the Olympic Games three times . When he made his Olympic debut in 1972 , he finished ninth in the star boat in the Schilksee Olympic Center . Four years later he missed a medal win in Montreal in the boat class Soling in fourth. With Nikolai Poljakow and Valentin Samotaikin as crew, Budnikow was just behind the US and East German boats with 48.7 points, both of which scored 47.4 points. At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 he was again the skipper of the Soviet boat in Soling, whose crew consisted of Nikolai Polyakov and his brother Alexander Budnikow . In seven races they achieved three second and two third places, with which they won the regatta taking place in Tallinn with 30.4 points behind the Danish boat led by Poul Høj Jensen with 23 points and just ahead of the Greek boat around Anastasios Boundouris with 31.1 points finished in second place and won the silver medal. In the same year, the Budnikow brothers and Poljakow together became European champions in Soling, and in 1982 they were vice European champions. With two other crew members Budnikow was again vice European champion in 1983 and also vice world champion in 1984 .
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