Boris Shakhlin

Boris Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast, born in Ishim in the Russian SFSR, who won the all-around title at the 1960 Summer Olympics and was the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won thirteen Olympic medals, seven of them gold, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Games, holding the record for most Olympic medals by a male athlete until Nikolai Andrianov won his fourteenth and fifteenth medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He also won fourteen medals at the World Championships. After retiring from competition at the age of 35 following a heart attack, he joined the Men's Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation in 1968 and served on it until 1992, and he was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002.