TABLE TENNIS PLAYER

Kalinikos Kreanga

1972 - Today

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Kalinikos Kreanga (born March 8, 1972) is a Greek (formerly Romanian) table tennis player. Born as Călin Creangă, he chose to defect from Communist-ruled Romania at the age of 17 (with his father) while he was participating in the European Table Tennis Youth Championships in Luxembourg in 1989. Born in Bistriţa, Romania, Kreanga started to play table tennis at the age of 7. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kalinikos Kreanga has received more than 71,699 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kalinikos Kreanga is the 30th most popular table tennis player (down from 25th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from Romania (down from 448th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Table Tennis Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS

Among table tennis players, Kalinikos Kreanga ranks 30 out of 107. Before him are Jean-Michel Saive, Wang Hao, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Gábor Gergely, Kong Linghui, and Deng Yaping. After him are Zhang Jike, Yoo Nam-kyu, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Jiang Jialiang, Erik Lindh, and Xu Xin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Kalinikos Kreanga ranks 389. Before him are Takanohana Kōji, Hera Björk, Olga Yegorova, Brian Acton, Darren Hayes, and Sammi Cheng. After him are Melissa Auf der Maur, Elyes Fakhfakh, Alexander Borodai, Shan Sa, Jaouad Gharib, and Guillaume Gallienne.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Kalinikos Kreanga ranks 531 out of 844. Before him are Vali Ionescu (1960), Maria Ștefan (1954), Nicolae Stanciu (1993), Dumitru Stângaciu (1964), Loredana Dinu (1984), and Ilan Gilon (1956). After him are Ecaterina Oancia (1954), Ioan Andone (1960), Laurențiu Reghecampf (1975), Elena Horvat (1958), Sofia Corban (1956), and Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (1968).

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS In Romania

Among table tennis players born in Romania, Kalinikos Kreanga ranks 2. Before him are Angelica Rozeanu (1921). After him are Otilia Bădescu (1970), and Bernadette Szőcs (1995).

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