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Irina Press

1939 - 2004

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Irina Natanovna Press (10 March 1939 – 22 February 2004) was a multitalented Soviet athlete who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. In 1960, she won a gold medal in the 80 m hurdles and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Irina Press has received more than 143,461 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Irina Press is the 62nd most popular athlete (up from 68th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 302nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Irina Press ranks 62 out of 6,025. Before her are Walter Schröder, Wilma Rudolph, Yuriy Sedykh, Platt Adams, Hans Woellke, and Gabriela Andersen-Schiess. After her are Ralph Boston, Al Oerter, Pietro Mennea, Yelena Isinbayeva, Vera Krepkina, and Shizo Kanakuri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Irina Press ranks 131. Before her are Josef Abrhám, Marisa Mell, Alan Baker, George Hamilton, Karel Brückner, and Scott McKenzie. After her are Ralph Boston, Robert James Waller, Neil Sedaka, Andrew Parker Bowles, Hércules Brito Ruas, and Enrico Albertosi. Among people deceased in 2004, Irina Press ranks 84. Before her are Miki Matsubara, Serge Reggiani, Jean Rouch, Uta Hagen, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, and Boris Trajkovski. After her are Miklós Fehér, Jerry Orbach, Shiing-Shen Chern, Russ Meyer, John Maynard Smith, and Zenkō Suzuki.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Irina Press ranks 285 out of 1,365. Before her are Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), Rinat Akhmetov (1966), Efim Bogoljubov (1889), Efim Geller (1925), and Boris Lyatoshinsky (1894). After her are Olena Zelenska (1978), Zalmoxis (-713), Theophan Prokopovich (1681), David Riazanov (1870), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), and Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Irina Press ranks 2. Before her are Tamara Press (1937). After her are Vladimir Kuts (1927), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Inessa Kravets (1966), Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930).

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