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Maria Itkina

1932 - 2020

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Maria (also "Mariya" and "Marina") Leontievna Itkina (Belarusian: Марыя Лявонцеўна Іткіна; Russian: Мария Леонтьевна Иткина; 3 May 1932 – 1 December 2020) was a Soviet runner who set multiple world records in various sprint events. She competed at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympics and finished four times in fourth place. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Itkina has received more than 38,833 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Maria Itkina is the 448th most popular athlete (down from 300th in 2019), the 1,603rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,440th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Maria Itkina ranks 448 out of 6,025. Before her are Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Louis Abell, Lis Hartel, Edward Cook, Harry Stenqvist, and Betty Cuthbert. After her are Ahmet Ayık, Louis Clarke, Fred Alderman, Lidiya Alfeyeva, Veikko Kankkonen, and Klaus Dibiasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Maria Itkina ranks 292. Before her are Antonio Roma, Sígfrid Gràcia, Marc Fumaroli, Atef Ebeid, Kenneth Appel, and Francisco Umbral. After her are Robert Taylor, Hans van Manen, Donald Kagan, Raymond Kaelbel, Aleksandr Belyavsky, and Mickey Kuhn. Among people deceased in 2020, Maria Itkina ranks 357. Before her are Mike Resnick, Papa Bouba Diop, Italo De Zan, Ashley Cooper, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, and Hau Pei-tsun. After her are Martin Birch, Ahmed Laraki, Yuri Bondarev, Wolfgang Uhlmann, John D. Barrow, and Gergely Kulcsár.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Maria Itkina ranks 1,603 out of 3,761. Before her are Lev Atamanov (1905), Nikolay Bauman (1873), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Veikko Huhtanen (1919), Leonid Filatov (1946), and Roman Vishniac (1897). After her are Viktor Tsaryov (1931), Wilhelm Küchelbecker (1797), Eugene Kaspersky (1965), Dmitry Rogozin (1963), Illarion Pryanishnikov (1840), and Teuvo Aura (1912).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Maria Itkina ranks 25. Before her are Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Veikko Hakulinen (1925), Olha Bryzhina (1963), and Bernd Kannenberg (1942). After her are Irina Privalova (1968), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Veikko Karvonen (1926), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938).

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