Valentin Wassiljewitsch Boreiko

Valentin Wassiljewitsch Boreiko medal table
rowing
Soviet Union
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1960 Rome	Two without
World championships
silver	1962 Lucerne	Two without
European championships
silver	1959 Mâcon	Two without

Valentin Vasilyevich Boreiko ( Russian Валентин Васильевич Борейко , English Valentin Vasilyevich Boreyko ; born October 27, 1933 in Leningrad , Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic ; † probably December 27, 2012 ) was a Soviet rower and rowing coach .

Boreiko competed at club level for Trud Leningrad and between 1959 and 1963 was five times "Champion" of the USSR. In 1954, 1958 and 1964 he won the Soviet championships. In 1959, he and his partner Oleg Golowanow won silver in two without a helmsman at the European Rowing Championships in Mâcon, France . The Italian Rome held 1960 Summer Olympics , the pair won Olympic gold in 1962, they were the runner-up title in the Swiss Lucerne errudern. In 1964, the couple Boreiko / Golowanow again at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo , Japan, where they eliminated in the first round with seven seconds behind the penultimate.

Boreiko was honored as an Honored Master of Sports and Honored Trainer of the RSFSR because of his services - among other things as national coach of the Soviet rowers between 1969 and 1974 . On December 27, 2012, the Russian Rowing Association announced that Boreiko had died at the age of 80.

Web links

• Valentin Wassiljewitsch Boreiko in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boris Naumowitsch Khawin: Всё об олимпийских играх. Moscow 1979 (2nd edition), p. 534.
2. ↑ Зал славы НГУ имени П. Ф. Лесгафта: Борейко Валентин Васильевич. In: spb.ru. Archived from the original on February 19, 2013 ; Retrieved December 27, 2012 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Rowing World Championships: Two men without a helmsman. Retrieved October 31, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Ушел из жизни Валентин Борейко. (No longer available online.) In: rowingrussia.ru. Archived from the original on January 1, 2013 ; Retrieved December 27, 2012 (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.