Mikhail Afanasyevich Shakhov (russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Шахов; 20 November 1931 – 8 August 2018) was a Soviet bantamweight freestyle wrestler.

Biography

He was born in

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in 1931. Shakhov lost his father during

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in 1942. He was raised in

Saratov Oblast Saratov Oblast (russian: Сара́товская о́бласть, ''Saratovskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the types of ...

Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

, and took up wrestling in

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

, while serving with the Soviet Army there. He started serving in Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in

in 1951. Then he started training in Sambo and in 1954 became the champion of the USSR. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He stayed in Kiev for most of his life. Shakhov won the Soviet bantamweight title in 1956, 1960 and 1961, placing third in 1957. His favorite technique was

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. After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach in Ukraine and Poland. His trainees include

Taras Danko Taras Hryhoriyovych Danko (Тарас Григорійович Данько; born July 3, 1980, in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian wrestler, who has won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics The ...

and

Valeriy Andriytsev Valerii Oleksandrovych Andriitsev ( uk, Валерій Олександрович Андрійцев; born 27 February 1987 in Kozelets) is a male freestyle wrestler from Ukraine. He won the silver medal in the Men's freestyle 96 kg at 2012 Sum ...

. In 1957 Shakhov married Anastasiya, a woman from Saratov Oblast five years his junior; she died of cancer in 2004. The couple had a daughter Larisa, who was married to the basketball player

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and lived in Germany.

Death

He died in 2018 at the age of 87.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shakhov, Mikhail 1931 births 2018 deaths Olympic wrestlers for the Soviet Union Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Ukrainian male sport wrestlers Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Saratov Oblast