ATHLETE

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 60,983 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Faina Melnik is the 340th most popular athlete (down from 174th in 2019), the 617th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 463rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Faina Melnik ranks 340 out of 6,025. Before her are Albert Gutterson, Viktor Tsybulenko, Renate Boy, Alfred Tysoe, Dexter Jackson, and Richard Sheldon. After her are Albert Ayat, Pat McCormick, Ivo Van Damme, Birgit Fischer, Julius Skutnabb, and Nicolae Neagoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Faina Melnik ranks 339. Before her are Nuruddin Farah, Modestas Paulauskas, Sam Anderson, Ken Walsh, Paul Kennedy, and Zygmunt Maszczyk. After her are Roberta Bondar, Pakalitha Mosisili, Gianni Amelio, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, David Sanborn, and Kent Karlsson. Among people deceased in 2016, Faina Melnik ranks 261. Before her are Billy Paul, Marco Pannella, Ernst Neizvestny, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Leonid Zhabotinsky, and Yvette Chauviré. After her are Anita Brookner, Pedro de Felipe, Raoul Coutard, Afeni Shakur, Giovanni Coppa, and László Sárosi.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Faina Melnik ranks 617 out of 1,365. Before her are Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), František Kriegel (1908), Viktor Knorre (1840), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), Grigory Kriss (1940), and Walery Sławek (1879). After her are Alexander Beliavsky (1953), Nikolay Girs (1820), Aleksander Brückner (1856), Ruslan Khomchak (1967), Vladimir Muntyan (1946), and Alexander Zakharchenko (1976).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Faina Melnik ranks 13. Before her are Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Inessa Kravets (1966), Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930). After her are Lidiya Alfeyeva (1946), Mykola Avilov (1948), Nina Dumbadze (1919), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Vladimir Yashchenko (1959), and Tatyana Prorochenko (1952).

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