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Vasily Borisov

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Height
  
1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Name
  
Vasily Borisov

Club
  
Dynamo Moscow

Sport
  
Rifle shooting

Weight
  
85 kg (187 lb)


Vasily Borisov

Born
  
12 December 1922 (
1922-12-12
)
Mayaki, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov (Russian: Василий Фёдорович Борисов; born 12 December 1922) is a retired Soviet rifle shooter. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five individual events and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. Between 1954 and 1966 Borisov won more than 20 medals at the world championships. At the 1954 World Championships, he and his teammate Anatoli Bogdanov won 13 medals each, cleansweeping most rifle events.

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Vasily Borisov Wikipedia