Viktor Chukarin

Viktor Chukarin was a Ukrainian gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Born in the village of Krasnoarmeyskoye in what is now the Donetsk region, he trained in Mariupol and studied at the Institute of Physical Education in Kyiv. He won eleven Olympic medals, seven of them gold, at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics, taking the individual all-around title at both Games, and he was the all-around world champion in 1954. He was the most successful athlete at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In the summer of 1941, when the German-Soviet War began, he volunteered for the Red Army.