Mikhail Afanasyevich Shakhov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Шахов; 20 November 1931 – 8 August 2018) was a Soviet bantamweight freestyle wrestler.

He was raised in Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR,[1] and took up wrestling in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, while serving with the Soviet Army there.

After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach in Ukraine and Poland.

[2][5] In 1957 Shakhov married Anastasiya, a woman from Saratov Oblast five years his junior; she died of cancer in 2004.

The couple had a daughter Larisa, who was married to the basketball player Alexander Belostenny and lived in Germany.