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Mykola Avilov

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Mykola Viktorovych Avilov (Ukrainian: Микола Вікторович Авілов, Russian: Николай Викторович Авилов, born 6 August 1948) is a retired Ukrainian Soviet decathlete (Odesa) who competed at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1972, setting a new world record, a bronze in 1976, and finished fourth in 1968.Unusually tall for his time Avilov first played basketball, then changed to high jump in 1962, and only in 1966 turned to decathlon. He won that event at the 1970 Universiade and finished second in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mykola Avilov has received more than 130,890 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Mykola Avilov is the 235th most popular athlete (up from 272nd in 2019), the 521st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 497th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Mykola Avilov ranks 235 out of 3,059Before him are Ilmari Salminen, Fred Kelly, Frederick Lorz, Ion Drîmbă, Hans Günter Winkler, and Harald Grønningen. After him are Karin Balzer, Albin Lermusiaux, Adolfo Consolini, Helge Løvland, Joseph Guillemot, and Dominik Hašek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Mykola Avilov ranks 298Before him are Joe Dallesandro, Manuel Bento, Davíð Oddsson, Larry Carlton, Jayalalithaa, and Anatoly Solovyev. After him are Bernard-Marie Koltès, Phylicia Rashad, Raúl Reyes, Elaine Paige, Lulu, and Enrique Vila-Matas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Mykola Avilov ranks 521 out of 1,083Before him are Georgy Shonin (1935), Abraham Goldfaden (1840), Nikolai Podvoisky (1880), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), Semyon Ignatyev (1904), and Yevgeny Petrov (1902). After him are Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), Roman Karmen (1906), Weegee (1899), Ossip Bernstein (1882), Dmitry Sipyagin (1853), and Oleksandr Korniychuk (1905).

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Mykola Avilov ranks 14Before him are Vladimir Kuts (1927), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Faina Melnik (1945), Inessa Kravets (1966), Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952), and Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938). After him are Nina Dumbadze (1919), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), Irina Kirichenko (1937), Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Vladimír Syrovátka (1908), and Vladimir Yashchenko (1959).