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Faina Melnik

1945 - 2016

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Faina Grigorievna Veleva-Melnik (Russian: Фаина Григорьевна Велева-Мельник; Ukrainian: Фаїна Григорівна Велєва-Мельник, romanized: Faina Hryhorivna Velieva-Melnyk; née Melnik; 9 June 1945 – 16 December 2016) was a Soviet discus thrower, a 1972 Summer Olympics champion in the discus event. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faina Melnik has received more than 53,101 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Faina Melnik is the 174th most popular athlete (up from 212th in 2019), the 466th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 464th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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  • 53k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Faina Melnik ranks 174 out of 3,059. Before her are Ethel Smith, Viorica Viscopoleanu, Chris Dickerson, Helen Stephens, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, and Pietro Mennea. After her are Terry Fox, Dorian Yates, Dorothy Manley, Carl Diem, Harry Porter, and Inessa Kravets.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Faina Melnik ranks 245. Before her are Doug Clifford, Al Stewart, Bob Balaban, Brian Connolly, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, and Leif G. W. Persson. After her are Carrie Snodgress, Polad Bülbüloğlu, Herman van Veen, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Kim Larsen, and Nadezhda Chizhova. Among people deceased in 2016, Faina Melnik ranks 207. Before her are Ramón Castro Ruz, Roberto Perfumo, Pierre Barouh, Steven Hill, Martin Gray, and Naná Vasconcelos. After her are Ernst Neizvestny, Doris Roberts, Jadranka Stojaković, Sixto Durán Ballén, Raoul Coutard, and Leon Russell.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Faina Melnik ranks 466 out of 1,083. Before her are Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914), Viktor Vekselberg (1957), Boris Yefimov (1900), Yury Olesha (1899), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), and Valentina Grizodubova (1909). After her are Demyan Bedny (1883), Yozhef Sabo (1940), Kazimierz Górski (1921), Inessa Kravets (1966), Boris Mikhailov (1938), and Sergei Stanishev (1966).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Faina Melnik ranks 10. Before her are Leonid Bartenyev (1933), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Vladimir Kuts (1927), and Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939). After her are Inessa Kravets (1966), Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), Mykola Avilov (1948), Nina Dumbadze (1919), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930).

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