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Jorma Valkama

1928 - 1962

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Jorma Rainer Valkama (October 4, 1928, Viipuri – December 11, 1962) was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. He competed for Finland in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the long jump where he won the bronze medal. Valkama died in a car accident at age 34, the same year that he won the Finnkampen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jorma Valkama has received more than 13,032 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jorma Valkama is the 1,130th most popular athlete (down from 766th in 2019), the 2,139th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,880th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jorma Valkama ranks 1,130 out of 6,025. Before him are Sulo Bärlund, William Henry Dean, Willem Slijkhuis, Antal Kiss, Hans Wetterström, and Victor Verschueren. After him are Viola Myers, Edera Cordiale, Jan Egil Storholt, Victor Sonnemans, Petter Hugsted, and Thorvald Strömberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jorma Valkama ranks 472. Before him are Finn Haunstoft, Barbara Ann Scott, Boris Kuznetsov, Laurus Škurla, Judith Krantz, and Peter Taylor. After him are Kate Wilhelm, Joseph Kruskal, Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Buddy Van Horn, José Antonio Roca, and Andrés Prieto. Among people deceased in 1962, Jorma Valkama ranks 188. Before him are Fernand Rigaux, Seiichiro Kashio, Solomon Linda, Harlow Curtice, Owen D. Young, and John Ireland. After him are Victor Sonnemans, John Rimmer, Harmodio Arias Madrid, André Roosevelt, Charles Reisner, and Gerrit Achterberg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Jorma Valkama ranks 2,139 out of 3,761. Before him are Manfred Schaefer (1943), Yevgeny Vesnik (1923), German Sveshnikov (1937), Maxim Galkin (1976), Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900), and Igor Dmitriev (1927). After him are Vladimir Kara-Murza (1981), Alexei Kasatonov (1959), Igor Starygin (1946), Olavi Paavolainen (1903), Boris Piotrovsky (1908), and Albert Coates (1882).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Jorma Valkama ranks 60. Before him are Valeri Vasiliev (1949), Tamara Bykova (1958), Valery Muratov (1946), Andrey Abduvaliyev (1966), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), and German Sveshnikov (1937). After him are Lyudmila Andonova (1960), Sylvi Saimo (1914), Yuriy Lituyev (1925), Vladimir Belousov (1946), Valentin Gavrilov (1946), and Maria Golubnichaya (1924).

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