Shumilin was born in
Kaliningrad,
Russian SFSR. In 1980, his father brought him to the junior sports school. At 16 years old he was already a master of sports of the
USSR. In the 1986 he won the USSR championship and the Juniors' World championship. The next year Shumilin repeated his success – he was already double Juniors' World champion. In 1989 he was junior's European champion. From 1990 he was a regular member of the Russian national wrestling team. ==References==