Heorhiy Zhylin
Appearance
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Birth name | Heorhiy Semenovych Zhylin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 August 1925 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 September 1997 | (aged 72)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Nauka Kiev | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Heorhiy Semenovych Zhylin (Ukrainian: Георгій Семенович Жилін, 18 August 1925 – 12 September 1997) was a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.
In 1952 he won the silver medal with his partner Ihor Yemchuk in the double sculls event.
Four years later he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs competition.
References
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Heorhiy Zhylin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 December 2012.
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Categories:
- 1925 births
- 1997 deaths
- Ukrainian male rowers
- Soviet male rowers
- Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union
- Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Rowers from Kyiv
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen
- Soviet rowing Olympic medalist stubs