Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin

Viktor Chukarin
Personal information
Surname:	Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin
Nationality:	Soviet Union
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Birthday:	November 9, 1921
Place of birth:	Mariupol
Death day:	August 25, 1984
Place of death:	Lviv
Medal table
Olympic games 7 × 3 × 1 × World championships 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Medals
Olympic games gold Helsinki 1952 Individual all-around gold Helsinki 1952 Pommel horse gold Helsinki 1952 Leap gold Helsinki 1952 Team all-around silver Helsinki 1952 Rings silver Helsinki 1952 Ingots gold Melbourne 1956 Individual all-around gold Melbourne 1956 Ingots gold Melbourne 1956 Team all-around silver Melbourne 1956 ground bronze Melbourne 1956 Pommel horse  World championships gold Rome 1954 Individual all-around gold Rome 1954 Ingots gold Rome 1954 Team all-around bronze Rome 1954 Pommel horse

Viktor Chukarin ( Ukrainian Віктор Чукарін , Russian Виктор Иванович Чукарин ; in the German press as Viktor Schu Karin * denotes 9. November 1921 in Mariupol , † 25. August 1984 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR was a) Soviet gymnast . He was interned for several years as a Soviet prisoner of war in the main camp XB near Sandbostel . He died at the age of 62 in Lviv and was buried there in the Lychakiv Cemetery.

Career

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , the first in which the Soviet Union took part, and in Melbourne in 1956 , he was the most successful male participant, aged 30 and 35, respectively. In addition to the Italian Alberto Braglia (1908 and 1912) and the Japanese Sawao Kato (1968 and 1972) and Kōhei Uchimura (2012 and 2016), he is one of the four athletes who were able to repeat their all-round victory. This, and especially his war experiences, made him a symbolic figure in Soviet sports.

In total, Tschukarin won seven gold, three silver and one bronze (eleven medals) at the Olympics. This puts him in 14th place in the all-time best list of all participants of both sexes (only men: 10th place), in the Soviet gymnastics category just behind Nikolai Jefimowitsch Andrianow and Boris Anfijanowitsch Schachlin , who also achieved seven Olympic victories but more silver and bronze ranks. (Last updated 2012)

In addition, he became world champion in the twelve fight and parallel bars in 1954 .

In 2009 Viktor Tschukarin was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Olympic record

1952 Gold Twelve Fight Gold horse jump Gold pommel horse Gold team Silver rings Silver bars

1956 Gold Twelve Fight Gold team Gold bar Silver bottom Bronze pommel horse

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 46
2. ↑ Inventory report ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Viktor Tschukarin in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame (English)
• Viktor Tschukarin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )