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Facts

Born January 27, 1932 • Russia • Russia
Died May 30, 2008 (aged 76) • Kyiv • Ukraine
Awards And Honors Olympic Games

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Soviet gymnast Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin
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Gymnastics champion Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Chukarin
Soviet athlete
Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina performs a floor routine, leaping with one leg extended, during the women's compulsory exercises at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics.
Larisa Latynina
Soviet athlete
Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo
Belarusian athlete
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Vyacheslav Ivanov
Soviet athlete
Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská
Czech gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Ludmilla Tourischeva
Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet gymnast
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Al Oerter
American athlete
Fraser, Dawn
Dawn Fraser
Australian swimmer
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Hans Günter Winkler
German athlete
Lev Yashin holds the Golden Ball trophy above his head while standing with Soviet soccer teammates in uniforms marked CCCP, in a stadium, 1964.
Lev Ivanovich Yashin
Russian football (soccer) player
“Father of gymnastics”
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
German educator
The most-decorated American gymnast
Simone Biles
American gymnast
Kōhei Uchimura at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Kōhei Uchimura
Japanese gymnast
Bart Conner
Bart Conner
American gymnast
Katō Sawao
Katō Sawao
Japanese gymnast
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Dmitri Bilozerchev
Russian athlete
Murray Rose
Murray Rose
Australian swimmer
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Paul Elvstrøm
Danish yachtsman
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Dezsö Gyarmati
Hungarian water polo player and coach

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