Valentin Boreyko

Valentin Vasilyevich Boreiko (Russian Валентин Васильевич Борейко, English Valentin Vasilyevich Boreyko, born October 27, 1933, Leningrad, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, † probably December 27, 2012 ) was a Soviet rower and rowing coach.

Boreiko occurred on the club level for Trud Leningrad and was 1959-1963 five times "Champion" of the USSR. 1954, 1958 and 1964, he won the Soviet Championships. In 1959 he won with his partner Oleg Sergeyevich Golovanov at the helm European Championships in France Mâcon silver in the coxless pairs. The taking place in the Italian Rome Summer Olympic Games in 1960 won the pair of Olympic gold, in 1962, they could errudern the Vice World Champion title in the Swiss Lucerne. In 1964, the couple Boreiko / Golovanov again at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan on, where they were eliminated in the first round, with seven seconds behind second-bottom.

Boreiko was for his services - awarded the Honored Master of Sports and Merited Coach of the RSFSR - including as national coach of the Soviet rowers between 1969 and 1974. On 27 December 2012, the Russian Rowing Federation announced that Boreiko had died in the age of 80.