Valeriy Borzov

Valeriy Borzov is a Soviet-Ukrainian former sprinter and politician, born in Sambir in the Ukrainian SSR in 1949. He won the sprint double at the 1971 European Championships in Helsinki and took a third successive European 100 metres title in 1974. At the 1972 Munich Olympics he won both the 100 and 200 metres, and four years later he finished third in the 100 metres in Montreal and added a relay bronze, for a total of four Olympic medals. After retiring in 1979 he became president of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee, a member of the International Olympic Committee, Ukraine's minister for youth and sports and a member of the national parliament. He married the gymnast Ludmilla Tourischeva.