Boris Sergeyevich Tokarev

Boris Sergeyevich Tokarev medal table
sprinter
Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
silver	1956 Melbourne	4 × 100 m
silver	1952 Helsinki	4 × 100 m
European championships
bronze	1958 Stockholm	4 × 100 m
bronze	1954 Bern	4 × 100 m

Boris Sergejewitsch Tokarew ( Russian Борис Сергеевич Токарев ; born May 16, 1927 in Nevinnomyssk ; † December 17, 2002 ) was a Soviet athlete . The 1.78 m tall and 72 kg heavy sprinter was particularly successful internationally as a relay runner.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 he was used in the 4 x 100 meter relay as the starting runner of the Soviet team and together with Levan Kaljajew , Levan Sanadze and Vladimir Sukharev, he won the silver medal behind the US and ahead of the Hungarian team . Two years later he won the bronze medal in the relay at the European Athletics Championships in Bern, together with Viktor Ryabov , Sanadze and Leonid Bartenew . It won the Hungarian relay in the line-up of Helsinki before the British.

Tokarev was able to repeat both successes. At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, where he also finished fifth in the 200-meter run and reached the semi-finals in the 100-meter run , he was in second place with Bartenew, Yuri Konovalov and Sucharew, once again silver behind the US Americans. At the European Athletics Championships in Stockholm in 1958, he won, now again as a starting runner, together with Edwin Osolin , Konowalew and Bartenew, another bronze medal behind the teams from Germany and the United Kingdom.

Web links

• Boris Sergejewitsch Tokarew in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )