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Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin (Russian: Борис Анфиянович Шахлин; 27 January 1932 – 30 May 2008) was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion.
May 26, 2024 · Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin (born January 27, 1932, Ishim, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died May 30, 2008, Kiev, Ukraine) was a Soviet gymnast who set a career record of 10 individual titles in the world championships and who also won gold medals at three successive Olympic Games.
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Jun 5, 2008 · Boris Shakhlin, the brilliant Soviet gymnast of the 1950s and ’60s who won six individual Olympic gold medals, a record for men’s gymnastics, died last Friday in Kiev, Ukraine. He was 76....
May 31, 2008 · Boris Shakhlin, who won a record six individual Olympic gymnastics men's gold medals, died late on Friday at the age of 76, the Ukrainian Olympic Committee said.
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Gymnastics doesn’t happen in a vacuum. So, here’s some information to get you situated. 1. Winter Olympics 1.1. The Winter Olympics were held in Innsbruck, Austria earlier in the year. 1.2. The 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway were the first Winter Olympics to be held in a different year from the Summer Olympics. 2. Japan 2.1. Japan was ...
Here’s what was happening in the world of gymnastics… 1. Japanhad won the Olympic title in 1960 and World title in 1962. 2. Boris Shakhlin (“Iron Man”)was the reigning Olympic all-around champion (1960). 3. Yuri Titov was the reigning World all-around champion (1962) 3.1. Leading up to Tokyo, he wasn’t competing much. After the Prague World Champio...
What’s that? You weren’t alive in 1964? Don’t worry, I wasn’t either. I’ve uploaded the entire men’s 1964 Code of Pointshere. To refresh your memory, here are the skills the judges were looking for on each event: Floor 1. Use of the entire area without “too many” running steps 2. No less than 50 seconds and no more than 70 seconds 3. Movements must...
God bless YouTube. We have one whole hour of coverage from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. By the end of the hour, you will believe that you can speak another language fluently. Unfortunately, the video doesn’t include a lower third with the gymnasts’ names. (Though, the commentator does mention the majority of the gymnasts’ names.) So, here’s a quick key...
Reminder: Teams consisted of 6 members. The best 5 scores on each event counted for both compulsories and optionals. While gymnasts were performing their compulsory and optional routines, they were competing for the team and all-around title, as well as vying for places in the event finals. Here were the groupings for compulsories: 1. Group A (8:30...
Reminder: There wasn’t a separate all-around competition as there is today. At the same time that gymnasts were competing for the team title, they were competing for the all-around title. Their all-around totals were the sum of their optional and compulsory routines. Rankings after Compulsories – Top 10 Heading into the optionals portion of the com...
Reminder: Only six gymnasts qualified for event finals. Qualification for finals was based on the compulsory *and* optional scores on each event. Your total score was the average of your compulsory and optional scores (labeled “COA” in the tables below) plus the score for your routine during event finals. Floor Exercise Pommel Horse Still Rings Vau...
Here’s the video of Endo’s pommel horse routine. Jump ahead to the 17:05 mark. You don’t have to be a pommel horse expert to notice that there are three clear mistakes in the routine. Nor do you need to be a 1964 Code of Points expert to think, “Hmm, my gut says that Endo’s routine definitely shouldn’t score above a 9.0.” Well, you aren’t alone. He...
This doesn’t really fit with the rest of the post, but I know that at least 3 people in the world will find this interesting, so I’m tacking it on to the end. Being a math nerd and a gym nerd has always been a match made in heaven. Check out the statistical analyses of the Olympics that were printed in the Modern Gymnast.
Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union won seven gold medals in individual gymnastic events, which remains an Olympic best for men. He also won 14 World championship medals and four individual titles in 1958.
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won a total of 13 medals including seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
