1947 - Today
Elena Dmitriyevna Novikova-Belova (Russian: Елена Дмитриевна Новикова-Белова, née Novikova, born 28 July 1947) is a retired Russian foil fencer, known professionally simply as Elena Belova. She competed at the 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980 Olympics in the individual and team events and won four gold, one silver and one bronze medal, becoming the first female fencer to win four Olympic gold medals. She nearly won a fifth gold in 1976, but lost her last pool match to the last-placed fencer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elena Belova has received more than 25,524 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Elena Belova is the 10th most popular fencer (up from 17th in 2019), the 1,242nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,426th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Fencer.
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Among fencers, Elena Belova ranks 10 out of 174. Before her are Edoardo Mangiarotti, Gianluigi Saccaro, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, Helene Mayer, and Paul Anspach. After her are Pál Kovács, Attila Petschauer, Lucien Gaudin, Manuel Díaz, János Garay, and Aldo Nadi.
1919 - 2012
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 4
1938 - 2021
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 5
1883 - 1959
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 6
1906 - 1944
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 7
1910 - 1953
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 8
1882 - 1981
HPI: 50.76
Rank: 9
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 10
1912 - 1995
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 11
1904 - 1943
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 12
1886 - 1934
HPI: 49.36
Rank: 13
1874 - 1929
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 14
1889 - 1945
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 15
1899 - 1965
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 16
Among people born in 1947, Elena Belova ranks 306. Before her are Adam Cheng, Mirza Khazar, Mel Collins, Alaksandar Milinkievič, Gunter Demnig, and Apasra Hongsakula. After her are Mick Fleetwood, Peter M. Christian, László Fazekas, Giancarlo Minardi, Alan Lee, and Peter Cosgrove.
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 300
1947 - 2020
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 301
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.40
Rank: 302
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 303
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 304
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 305
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 306
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 307
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 308
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.30
Rank: 309
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 310
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.18
Rank: 311
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 312
Among people born in Russia, Elena Belova ranks 1,242 out of 3,262. Before her are August von Werder (1808), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Nikolay Novikov (1744), Issa Pliyev (1903), Fyodor Alekseyev (1753), and Yevgeniy Chazov (1929). After her are Nikolai Valuev (1973), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), Viktor Afanasyev (1948), Alexander Kazhdan (1922), Oleg Basilashvili (1934), and Margarita Terekhova (1942).
1808 - 1887
HPI: 50.36
Rank: 1,236
1929 - 2016
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 1,237
1744 - 1818
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 1,238
1903 - 1979
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 1,239
1753 - 1824
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 1,240
1929 - 2021
HPI: 50.33
Rank: 1,241
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 1,242
1973 - Present
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 1,243
1919 - 1994
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 1,244
1948 - Present
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 1,245
1922 - 1997
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 1,246
1934 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 1,247
1942 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 1,248
Among fencers born in Russia, Elena Belova ranks 1. After her are Viktor Sidyak (1943), Alexandr Romankov (1953), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Valentina Prudskova (1938), Alexandra Zabelina (1937), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), Umyar Mavlikhanov (1937), Olga Knyazeva (1954), Viktor Krovopuskov (1948), Pavel Kolobkov (1969), and Stanislav Pozdnyakov (1973).
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.32
Rank: 1
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 2
1953 - Present
HPI: 45.31
Rank: 3
1938 - Present
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 4
1938 - 2020
HPI: 43.65
Rank: 5
1937 - 2022
HPI: 43.30
Rank: 6
1945 - Present
HPI: 41.91
Rank: 7
1937 - 1999
HPI: 41.03
Rank: 8
1954 - 2015
HPI: 41.00
Rank: 9
1948 - Present
HPI: 40.39
Rank: 10
1969 - Present
HPI: 39.07
Rank: 11
1973 - Present
HPI: 36.40
Rank: 12