Valentin Boreyko

{{Short description|Russian rower (1933–2012)}}

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| birth_date = 7 October 1933[http://sportlegend.kulichki.net/grebla/boreyko.htm Profile of Valentin Boreyko] {{in lang|ru}}

| birth_place = Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|2012|12|27|1933|10|7|df=y}}

| death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia

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| sport = Rowing

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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing }}

{{MedalCountry | the {{URS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalGold | 1960 Rome | Coxless pair }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}

{{MedalSilver | 1962 Lucerne | Coxless pair }}

{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}

{{MedalSilver | 1959 Mâcon | Coxless pair}}

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Valentin Vasilevich Boreyko ({{langx|ru|Валентин Васильевич Борейко}}; 7 October 1933 – 27 December 2012) was a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=http://www.gazeta.ru/sport/2012/12/kz_4908846.shtml|title=Скончался олимпийский чемпион по гребле}} (Russian)

He was born in Leningrad.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/valentin-boreyko-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093215/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/valentin-boreyko-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Valentin Boreyko |access-date=20 April 2018}} In 1960 he and his partner Oleg Golovanov won the gold medal in the coxless pair event. Fours years later he and Oleg Golovanov were eliminated in the repêchage of the coxless pair competition.