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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 Soviet former 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 female gymnast with nine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larisa Latynina has received more than 1,105,093 page views. Her biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Larisa Latynina is the 2nd most popular gymnast, the 78th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 67th 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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    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Larisa Latynina ranks 2 out of 370. Before her are Nadia Comăneci. After her are Olga Korbut, Věra Čáslavská, Carl Schuhmann, Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Sawao Kato, Boris Shakhlin, and Nikolai Andrianov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Larisa Latynina ranks 32. Before her are Manuel Noriega, Paul Ekman, Alan Bates, Sydney Pollack, Alexei Leonov, and Niklaus Wirth. After her are Ronald Wayne, Renata Scotto, Kurt Hamrin, Richard Meier, Roman Herzog, and Richard Chamberlain.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Larisa Latynina ranks 78 out of 1,365. Before her are Isaac Babel (1894), Georges Charpak (1924), Sonia Delaunay (1885), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), and Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095). After her are Nachman of Breslov (1772), Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Selman Waksman (1888), Anacharsis (-700), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), and Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580).

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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 Lysenko (1975), Hrihoriy Misyutin (1970), Tatiana Gutsu (1976), Oleg Vernyayev (1993), Valeriy Honcharov (1977), Artem Dolgopyat (1997), Anastasia Bliznyuk (1994), Karolina Sevastyanova (1995), and Igor Radivilov (1992).

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