Georgi Semjonowitsch Schilin

Georgi Schilin
Full name	Georgi Semjonowitsch Schilin
nation	Soviet Union , Ukraine
birthday	August 18, 1925
place of birth	Kiev ,  Soviet Union
date of death	September 12, 1997
Place of death	Kiev,  Ukraine
Career
discipline	rowing
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 0 × 1 × 1 × European Rowing Championships 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 1952 Helsinki Double scull bronze 1956 Melbourne Two with a helmsman  European championships bronze 1954 Amsterdam Double scull gold 1955 Ghent Double scull silver 1957 Duisburg Two with a helmsman
Last change: September 22, 2015

Georgi Semyonovich Zhilin ( Russian Георгий Семёнович Жилин , Ukrainian Георгій Семенович Жилін , Heorhiy Semenowytsch Schylin * 18th August 1925 in Kiev ; † 12. September 1997 ) was a Soviet rowers won two Olympic medals.

During his entire international career, Schilin rowed together with Igor Yemchuk , who was around 5 years younger and also came from Kiev. First they regularly started in double sculls and won the silver medal in this boat class at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki behind the victorious pairing with Tranquilo Cappozzo and Eduardo Guerrero from Argentina. At the European Rowing Championships two years later in Amsterdam, Schilin and Yemtschuk rowed the bronze medal. In 1955 they won the European Championship title in double sculls in Ghent, Belgium .

In the 1956 Olympic year, Schilin and Yemtschuk were again Soviet champions in double sculls, but were not sent to the games in this boat class. Instead, Yuri Tjukalow and Alexander Berkutow rowed in a rolled two and won the Olympic gold medal. Shilin and Yemchuk switched to the oar area and were able to take part in the Summer Olympics in Melbourne in pairs with a helmsman . The boat was steered by helmsman Vladimir Petrov and won the Olympic bronze medal behind the teams of the USA and Germany. In the post-Olympic year, the trio won the silver medal in the same boat class at the European Rowing Championships in 1957 in Duisburg. Shilin and Yemchuk then no longer appeared internationally as rowers.

At the Soviet rowing championships, Shilin and Yemchuk won titles in double sculls from 1952 to 1956, and from 1957 to 1959 in double with helmsman. In 1952, both were honored with the honors of Honored Masters of Sports of the USSR (Заслуженный мастер спорта).

Web links

• Georgi Semjonowitsch Schilin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Georgi Semjonowitsch Schilin at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Double Sculls. Sports Reference LLC, accessed February 21, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Rowing - European Championships (men - double sculls). Retrieved February 21, 2015 . 
3. ^ Rowing at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Coxed Pairs. Sports Reference LLC, accessed February 21, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Rowing - European Championships (men - twos with stems). Retrieved February 21, 2015 . 
5. ↑ ЖИЛИН Георгий Семенович (СССР) - Schilin, Georgi Semjonowitsch (USSR). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; Retrieved February 21, 2015 (Russian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ЖИЛИН Георгий Семенович (18.08.1925–12.09.1997) - Schilin, Georgi Semjonowitsch (18.08.1925–12.09.1997). Retrieved February 21, 2015 (Russian).