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Larisa Latynina

1934 - Today

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Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (Russian: Лариса Семёновна Латынина, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a former Soviet artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and four team medals. She holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals by a gymnast, male or female, with 9. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larisa Latynina has received more than 966,625 page views. Her biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Larisa Latynina is the 2nd most popular gymnast, the 67th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 80th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Gymnast.

Larisa Latynina is most famous for being the first female gymnast to win 18 medals at the Olympics.

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  • 65.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Larisa Latynina ranks 2 out of 183. Before her are Nadia Comăneci. After her are Věra Čáslavská, Olga Korbut, Carl Schuhmann, Alfred Flatow, Ágnes Keleti, Hermann Weingärtner, Leon Štukelj, Nikolai Andrianov, Sawao Kato, and Alina Kabaeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Larisa Latynina ranks 32. Before her are Richard Chamberlain, Ronald Wayne, Pierre Richard, Paco Rabanne, Richard Meier, and Georges Moustaki. After her are Abimael Guzmán, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Roman Herzog, Tarcisio Bertone, Bill Russell, and Mohamed Farrah Aidid.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Larisa Latynina ranks 67 out of 1,083. Before her are Daniel of Galicia (1201), John Demjanjuk (1920), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Isaac Babel (1894), Moshe Sharett (1894), and Irène Némirovsky (1903). After her are Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), Sonia Delaunay (1885), Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Fanny Kaplan (1890), and Baal Shem Tov (1700).

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Among GYMNASTS In Ukraine

Among gymnasts born in Ukraine, Larisa Latynina ranks 1. After her are Viktor Chukarin (1921), Anna Bessonova (1984), Tatiana Gutsu (1976), Tatiana Lysenko (1975), Oleg Vernyayev (1993), Anastasia Bliznyuk (1994), and Artem Dolgopyat (1997).

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