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Elvīra Ozoliņa

1939 - Today

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Elvīra Anatoļjevna Ozoliņa (Russian: Эльвира Анатольевна Озолина, born 8 October 1939) is a retired Soviet javelin thrower. In 1960 she won gold medal with an Olympic Record of 55.98 m and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Between 1960 and 1963 she set three world records. In 1964 she became the first woman to surpass 60 m (61.38 m, at Soviet Championships), but this result was not ratified as a world record by IAAF. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elvīra Ozoliņa has received more than 23,761 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Elvīra Ozoliņa is the 71st most popular athlete (down from 40th in 2019), the 814th most popular biography from Russia (down from 545th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Elvīra Ozoliņa ranks 71 out of 3,059Before her are Gustav Flatow, Alfred Schmidt, Alain Mimoun, Irina Press, Jim Thorpe, and Alajos Szokolyi. After her are Ralph Craig, Haile Gebrselassie, Jüri Tamm, Volodymyr Holubnychy, Robert Garrett, and Myer Prinstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Elvīra Ozoliņa ranks 155Before her are Karen Black, Samantha Eggar, Enrico Albertosi, Lili Ivanova, Irina Press, and Jorge Paulo Lemann. After her are Germaine Greer, Czesław Niemen, Jane Alexander, Ariane Mnouchkine, Arkady Luxemburg, and Jerry Brudos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Elvīra Ozoliņa ranks 814 out of 3,262Before her are Franz Schlegelberger (1876), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Mitrofan Nedelin (1902), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev (1843), and Lyudmila Chernykh (1935). After her are Ulugh Muhammad (1405), Aleksey Batalov (1928), Eudoxia Streshneva (1608), Tikhon Khrennikov (1913), Viktor Gorbatko (1934), and Vladimir Ilyushin (1927).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Elvīra Ozoliņa ranks 5Before her are Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Valeriy Brumel (1942), and Yelena Isinbayeva (1982). After her are Irena Szewińska (1946), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Vera Krepkina (1933), and Natalya Lisovskaya (1962).