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Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin ((ロシア語:Виктор Иванович Чукарин), (ウクライナ語:Віктор Іванович Чукарін); 9 November 1921 – 25 August 1984) was a Soviet gymnast. He won eleven medals including seven gold medals at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics (including the individual all-around title on both occasions) and was the all-around world champion in 1954. He was the most successful athlete at the 1952 Summer Olympics. ==Biography== Chukarin was born in Krasnoarmeyskoye village in Donetsk Oblast, but his family soon moved to Mariupol, where he started training in gymnastics. Later Chukarin studied at the Institute of Physical Education in Kiev, and in 1941 volunteered to the Soviet Army. He was wounded, taken prisoner of war near Poltava and sent to a prisoner camp in Sandbostel. He then went through a chain of prisoner camps and by the time when he was freed in 1945 weighed only 40 kg. He was not accepted back to the sports institute in Kiev, and studied in a similar institution in Lviv. In 1946 he already competed in gymnastics at the Soviet national championships; next year he finished fifth, and in 1948 won a national title. He became the all-around Soviet champion in 1949 and repeated this achievement in 1950, 1951, 1953 and 1955.〔(«Ахиллесова пята» Виктора Чукарина. Как узник Бухенвальда выиграл Олимпиаду ). Argumenty i Fakty. 18 September 2014〕 Soviet Union joined the Olympic Games in 1952 when Chukarin was 30. By then Chukarin gained much weight and was considered bulky for a gymnast. As a result he had low scores on the floor, yet he won six medals, including the individual all-around by a margin of 0.7 points. He won five more Olympic medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics, including a silver on the floor.〔 He led the Soviet team to the victory at the 1954 World Championships, winning gold in the team all around and the individual all around. In 1957 along with Larisa Latynina, Chukarin was awarded the first ever Order of Lenin given to an athlete.〔 He recounted his sport career in the 1955 book entitled ''The Road to the Peaks (Put K Vershinam)''. In 1961, he coached Armenian gymnastics team, and in 1963 became an assistant professor at the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viktor Chukarin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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