Fyodor Vasilyevich Shutkov

Fyodor Schutkow medal table
sailing
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	Rome 1960	star

Fyodor Wassiljewitsch Schutkow ( Russian Фёдор Васильевич Шутков ; born February 15, 1924 in Schipilowo , Moscow Oblast ; † February 17, 2001 ) was a Soviet sailor .

successes

Fyodor Shutkov took part in five Olympic Games . On his Olympic debut in Helsinki in 1952 , he was a crew member of the Soviet boat in the 6-mR class, which finished the regatta in last and eleventh place. From the 1956 Games in Melbourne , he started in the Star boat class alongside Timir Pinegin and finished eighth in the first joint Olympic regatta with him. Four years later they became Olympic champions in their boat Tornado in Rome when, after winning three races, they came from a total of seven to 7619 total points. They won the gold medal in front of the Portuguese and the US boat. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo they finished fifth, in 1968 in Mexico City they did not get past 16th place. In 1964 Schutkow and Pinegin were joint European champions. In addition to two bronze medals at European championships, they secured 13 Soviet championships between 1953 and 1969 and won the Baltic Regatta eight times between 1958 and 1967 . In 1969 he ended his active sailing career and then worked as a sailing trainer in Moscow .

Web links

• Fyodor Schutkow in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Fjodor Schutkow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )