Boris Anfijanowitsch Schachlin

Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Борис Анфиянович Шахлин
Transl. :	Boris Anfijanovič Šachlin
Transcr. :	Boris Anfijanowitsch Schachlin

Boris Schaklin
Boris Shakhlin 1966
Personal information
Surname:	Boris Anfijanowitsch Schachlin
Nationality:	Ukraine
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Birthday:	January 27, 1932
Place of birth:	Ishim
Death day:	May 30, 2008
Place of death:	Kiev
Size:	171 cm
Medal table
Olympic games 7 × 4 × 2 × World championships 6 × 6 × 2 × European championships 6 × 3 × 1 ×
Medals
Olympic games gold Melbourne 1956 Pommel horse gold Melbourne 1956 Team all-around gold Rome 1960 Individual all-around gold Rome 1960 Pommel horse gold Rome 1960 Ingots gold Rome 1960 Leap silver Rome 1960 Team all-around silver Rome 1960 Rings bronze Rome 1960 Horizontal bar gold Tokyo 1964 Horizontal bar silver Tokyo 1964 Individual all-around silver Tokyo 1964 Team all-around bronze Tokyo 1964 Rings  World championships gold Rome 1954 Team all-around silver Rome 1954 Horizontal bar gold Moscow 1958 Individual all-around gold Moscow 1958 Pommel horse gold Moscow 1958 Horizontal bar gold Moscow 1958 Ingots gold Moscow 1958 Team all-around silver Prague 1962 Rings silver Prague 1962 Ingots silver Prague 1962 Pommel horse silver Prague 1962 Team all-around bronze Prague 1962 Individual all-around bronze Prague 1962 Leap silver Dortmund 1966 Team all-around  European championships gold Frankfurt 1955 Individual all-around gold Frankfurt 1955 Horizontal bar gold Frankfurt 1955 Pommel horse gold Frankfurt 1955 Ingots silver Frankfurt 1955 Rings gold Belgrade 1963 Rings gold Belgrade 1963 Horizontal bar silver Belgrade 1963 Individual all-around silver Belgrade 1963 Ingots bronze Belgrade 1963 Pommel horse

Boris Shakhlin , Ukrainian Шахлін Борис Анфіянович , even Boris Schaklin , (* 27 January 1932 in Ishim , Tyumen Oblast ; † 30th May 2008 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Soviet gymnast .

Career

Schachlin attended a sports school in Sverdlovsk , from where he then moved to the Institute for Physical Culture and Sports in Kiev. Chesslin took part in the Olympic Games in Melbourne (1956) , Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964) . Because of his ability to concentrate, he was also called "The Iron One".

After finishing his sporting career and his studies, he worked as a lecturer at the Kiev Institute for Physical Culture and Sport. He also took on a number of honorary functions, including President of the Gymnastics Federation of Ukraine . For more than three decades he was a certified FIG referee in almost all major international competitions. Boris Schachlin received great support from his wife Larissa, herself a former gymnast who works as a professor and doctor of medicine at the Kiev Sports Institute. The marriage produced a daughter.

Sporting successes

In total, Schachlin won seven gold, four silver and two bronze medals (13 medals) at the Olympics. This puts him in 13th place in the all-time list of the best (as of 2016). He was six times European and world champion. He also won the all-around title six times at the state championships and was five times winner of the USSR Cup and 13-time Soviet equipment master. Internationally, he won a total of 37 medals. In 2002 Boris Schachlin was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Olympic successes

1956 Gold pommel horse Gold team

1960 Gold Twelve Fight Gold pommel horse Gold horse jump Gold bar Silver rings Silver team Bronze horizontal bar

1964 Gold horizontal bar Silver Twelve Fight Silver team Bronze rings

World championships

• 1954 in the twelve fight with the team
• 1958 in the twelve fight with the team
• 1958 in the twelve fight individual
• 1958 on the horizontal bar
• 1958 on bars
• 1958 on the pommel horse

European championships

• 1955 in the twelve fight
• 1961

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 46

Web links

• Boris Schachlin in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Entry in the database of the  Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique  (English)
• Boris Schachlin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )