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Lidiya Skoblikova

1939 - Today

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Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova (Russian: Лидия Павловна Скобликова; born 8 March 1939) is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, a record she shares with Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lidiya Skoblikova has received more than 49,429 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Lidiya Skoblikova is the 36th most popular skater (down from 15th in 2019), the 1,482nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 945th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Skater.

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  • 49k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 36 out of 483. Before her are Heinrich Burger, Helena Pilejczyk, Nancy Kerrigan, Willy Böckl, Vera Ralston, and Walter Jakobsson. After her are Gundi Busch, Herma Szabo, Anna Hübler, Andrée Brunet, Emília Rotter, and Otto Kaiser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 315. Before her are János Göröcs, Robert Herbin, Vaçe Zela, David Frost, Rustam Ibragimbekov, and Abdelmajid Chetali. After her are Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Livio Berruti, Marie-Claire Blais, Carlos Alberto Silva, Jacek Gmoch, and Dixie Carter.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 1,482 out of 3,761. Before her are Dmitry Senyavin (1763), Karen Khachaturian (1920), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Elsa Brändström (1888), Andrey Lukanov (1938), and Joseph Bové (1784). After her are Vladimir Gilyarovsky (1853), Apollon Maykov (1821), Alexander Rou (1906), Ivan Kulibin (1735), Izmail Sreznevsky (1812), and Valentin Ivanov (1961).

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Among SKATERS In Russia

Among skaters born in Russia, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 4. Before her are Adelina Sotnikova (1996), Oleg Protopopov (1932), and Ludmila Belousova (1935). After her are Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Viktor Kosichkin (1938), Nikolai Panin (1872), Sergei Grinkov (1967), Klara Guseva (1937), Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946), Ekaterina Gordeeva (1971), and Eteri Tutberidze (1974).

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