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Irena Szewińska

1946 - 2018

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Irena Szewińska (née Kirszenstein; Polish pronunciation: [iˈrɛna ʂɛˈviɲska]; 24 May 1946 – 29 June 2018) was a Polish sprinter who was one of the world's foremost track athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irena Szewińska has received more than 209,504 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Irena Szewińska is the 84th most popular athlete (up from 109th in 2019), the 853rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 913th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Irena Szewińska ranks 84 out of 3,059Before her are Jim Hines, Stamata Revithi, Thomas Hicks, Lee Haney, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess, and Mohammed Gammoudi. After her are Archie Hahn, Eric Lemming, Inese Jaunzeme, Ibolya Csák, Eric Liddell, and Milkha Singh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Irena Szewińska ranks 204Before her are Terence McKenna, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Luc Marion, Ahmad Zahir, Jim Hines, and Toquinho. After her are Lucien Van Impe, John Waters, Ti Lung, Shlomo Sand, Ahmad al-Tayyeb, and Eugene Levy. Among people deceased in 2018, Irena Szewińska ranks 130Before her are Joseph Joffo, Nicolas Roeg, Dobri Dobrev, Yoshinobu Ishii, Luis García Meza, and Rachid Taha. After her are Đỗ Mười, Per Kirkeby, Oleg Tabakov, Margit Sandemo, Alexander Zakharchenko, and Neil Simon.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Irena Szewińska ranks 853 out of 3,262Before her are Edison Denisov (1929), Lev Oborin (1907), Lidia Ruslanova (1900), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), Vladimir of Novgorod (1020), and Semyon Bychkov (1952). After her are Edgar Froese (1944), Sergei Korsakoff (1854), Patriarch Sergius of Moscow (1867), Alexei Tupolev (1925), Friedrich von Lütke (1797), and Alexander Tamanian (1878).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Irena Szewińska ranks 6Before her are Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Valeriy Brumel (1942), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), and Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939). After her are Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Vera Krepkina (1933), and Natalya Lisovskaya (1962).