- Born
- Died
- Birth nameBoris Anfiyanovich Shahlin
- Nickname
- Mask of Iron
- Boris Shahlin was born on January 27, 1932 in Ishim, Russia. He died on May 30, 2008 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Olympic champion gymnast in the 1950s and 60s.
- At the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, Shaklin helped the Soviets edge Japan for the team gold and won a second gold on pommel horse.
- Won 13 Olympic medals - seven gold - as part of the Soviet squads that battled Japan in the 1950s and 1960s, in one of gymnastics' great rivalries.
- The only athlete to win four gold medals at the Rome Olympics.
- Inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002.
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