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Lydia Wideman

1920 - 2019

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Lydia Wideman (later Wideman-Lehtonen, 17 May 1920 – 13 April 2019) was a cross-country skier from Finland and the first female Olympic medalist in cross-country skiing. In 1952 she competed in thirteen 10 km races and won all of them, including the 1952 Winter Olympics, national championships and Lahti Ski Games. Wideman and her twin sister Tyyne were born in a family of ten siblings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lydia Wideman has received more than 33,448 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Lydia Wideman is the 11,352nd most popular politician (down from 10,749th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from Finland (up from 148th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Finnish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lydia Wideman ranks 11,352 out of 15,577Before her are Robert Byrd, Sobekhotep VI, Joseph Laniel, Ernest Monis, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, and Mohammad Ali Khan Zand. After her are Philip I, Latin Emperor, Julio Velasco, August Rei, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Martine Aubry, and John V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Lydia Wideman ranks 206Before her are Ignacio Eizaguirre, Georges Marchal, Jorge Pacheco Areco, Barend Biesheuvel, Juan José Torres, and Josefa Iloilo. After her are Gabrielle Wittkop, Virginia Mayo, Camillo Felgen, Michel Audiard, Janet Jagan, and Karen Khachaturian. Among people deceased in 2019, Lydia Wideman ranks 215Before her are Chelo Alonso, Dick Miller, Julie Adams, Pal Benko, Egil Danielsen, and Lee Radziwill. After her are Achille Silvestrini, Roland Matthes, Vladimir Etush, Michael Gielen, Fahrudin Jusufi, and Herman Wouk.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lydia Wideman ranks 140 out of 642Before her are Ville Valo (1976), Marcus Grönholm (1968), Ali Aaltonen (1884), Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886), Lauri Virtanen (1904), and Elias Katz (1901). After her are Sami Hyypiä (1973), Leo Kinnunen (1943), Hertta Kuusinen (1904), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), and Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955).

Among POLITICIANS In Finland

Among politicians born in Finland, Lydia Wideman ranks 32Before her are Eero Mäntyranta (1937), Antti Rinne (1962), Harri Holkeri (1937), Kalevi Sorsa (1930), Mauno Pekkala (1890), and Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886). After her are Hertta Kuusinen (1904), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), Juha Sipilä (1961), Harald Öhquist (1891), Johan Wilhelm Rangell (1894), and Kaarlo Castrén (1860).