Boris Onishchenko

Boris Onishchenko's athletic achievements were remarkable, but they are forever overshadowed by his cheating scandal. He was a dominant force in modern pentathlon in the late 1960s and early 1970s, winning five world championship golds and an Olympic team gold in 1972. His individual world title in 1971 proved he was the best in the world at that moment. Yet his legacy is defined by the 1976 Montreal Games, where his attempt to cheat cost him everything. The audacity of his scheme, and the fact that he nearly got away with it, has made his story one of the most infamous in Olympic history.