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Elena Belova

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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 25,255 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Elena Belova is the 11th most popular fencer (down from 10th in 2019), the 1,282nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,238th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Fencer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 25k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Elena Belova by language

Over the past year Elena Belova has had the most page views in the with 5,362 views, followed by Spanish (3,024), and English (2,750). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (129.93%), Basque (83.64%), and Persian (63.98%)

Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Elena Belova ranks 11 out of 349Before her are Helene Mayer, Paul Anspach, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, Olga Szabó-Orbán, and Pál Kovács. After her are Manuel Díaz, Henri Anspach, Gianluigi Saccaro, Lucien Gaudin, Gaston Alibert, and Rudolf Kárpáti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Elena Belova ranks 323Before her are Steven Holl, Tim Matheson, Kiki Dee, Robert M. Parker Jr., Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, and Maria del Mar Bonet. After her are Octavia E. Butler, Horst Blankenburg, Anny Duperey, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Betty Buckley, and Giancarlo Minardi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Elena Belova ranks 1,282 out of 3,761Before her are Vladislav Surkov (1964), Andreï Makine (1957), Mikhail Prokhorov (1965), Nikolai Valuev (1973), Irina Skobtseva (1927), and Grigoriy Myasoyedov (1834). After her are Yuri Artsutanov (1929), Yuri Lyubimov (1917), Boris Rosing (1869), Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Andrejs Pumpurs (1841), and Konstantin Savitsky (1844).

Among FENCERS In Russia

Among fencers born in Russia, Elena Belova ranks 1After her are Alexandra Zabelina (1937), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Viktor Sidyak (1943), Umyar Mavlikhanov (1937), Alexandr Romankov (1953), Valentina Prudskova (1938), Viktor Krovopuskov (1948), Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja (1945), Olga Knyazeva (1954), and Lyudmila Shishova (1940).