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Boris Shakhlin

1932 - 2008

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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. 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. He held the record for most Olympic medals by a male athlete record until gymnast Nikolai Andrianov won his 14th and 15th medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Shakhlin has received more than 91,098 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Boris Shakhlin is the 11th most popular gymnast (up from 14th in 2019), the 778th most popular biography from Russia (up from 938th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Boris Shakhlin ranks 11 out of 370. Before him are Carl Schuhmann, Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, and Sawao Kato. After him are Nikolai Andrianov, Leon Štukelj, Axel Ljung, Louis Zutter, Paavo Aaltonen, and Nellie Kim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Boris Shakhlin ranks 154. Before him are Mustafa Tlass, Gato Barbieri, Vasily Aksyonov, Eleanor F. Helin, Guðbergur Bergsson, and John Hillerman. After him are Dhirubhai Ambani, Nichelle Nichols, Spyros Kyprianou, József Antall, Félix Malloum, and Pentti Linkola. Among people deceased in 2008, Boris Shakhlin ranks 92. Before him are Tommy Lapid, Henri Salvador, Manuel Marulanda, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Kon Ichikawa, and Dan Shomron. After him are Paul Scofield, Jean Delannoy, Paul Frère, Claude Piron, Marcial Maciel, and Estelle Getty.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Boris Shakhlin ranks 778 out of 3,761. Before him are Yegor Gaidar (1956), Serge Koussevitzky (1874), Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (1746), Mikhail Kasyanov (1957), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), and Mintimer Shaimiev (1937). After him are Aleksey Arakcheyev (1769), Sergei Novikov (1938), Nikolay Krylov (1903), Anatoli Papanov (1922), Musa Cälil (1906), and Eduard Uspensky (1937).

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Among GYMNASTS In Russia

Among gymnasts born in Russia, Boris Shakhlin ranks 1. After him are Nikolai Andrianov (1952), Veikko Huhtanen (1919), Viktor Klimenko (1949), Mikhail Voronin (1945), Valentin Muratov (1928), Yuri Titov (1935), Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), Larisa Petrik (1949), Margarita Nikolaeva (1935), Yelena Davydova (1961), and Yelena Shushunova (1969).

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