GYMNAST

Nikolai Andrianov

1952 - 2011

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Nikolai Yefimovich Andrianov (Russian: Никола́й Ефи́мович Андриа́нов; 14 October 1952 – 21 March 2011) was a Soviet and Russian gymnast. He held the record for men for the most Olympic medals at 15 (7 gold medals, 5 silver medals, 3 bronze medals) until Michael Phelps surpassed him at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. Andrianov is the third athlete (male or female) in cumulative Olympic medals after Phelps's 28 and Larisa Latynina's 18. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Andrianov has received more than 212,447 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Nikolai Andrianov is the 12th most popular gymnast (down from 10th in 2019), the 840th most popular biography from Russia (up from 901st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Nikolai Andrianov ranks 12 out of 370Before him are Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Sawao Kato, and Boris Shakhlin. After him are Leon Štukelj, Axel Ljung, Louis Zutter, Paavo Aaltonen, Nellie Kim, and Takashi Ono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Nikolai Andrianov ranks 149Before him are Paul Reubens, Rex Tillerson, Marilyn Chambers, David A. Stewart, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, and Petar Stoyanov. After him are Rafael Caro Quintero, Anote Tong, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Per Petterson, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and Edward Zwick. Among people deceased in 2011, Nikolai Andrianov ranks 117Before him are Arnfinn Bergmann, Võ Chí Công, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Ken Russell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Peter Alexander. After him are Diane Cilento, Violetta Villas, John Paul Getty III, Ange-Félix Patassé, Abdul Fatah Younis, and Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Andrianov ranks 840 out of 3,761Before him are Slava Metreveli (1936), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Irina Rodnina (1949), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), and Semyon Bogdanov (1894). After him are Ivan Yefimovich Petrov (1896), Otto Hesse (1811), Sergei Nilus (1862), Leah Goldberg (1911), Julia Lermontova (1847), and Veruschka von Lehndorff (1939).

Among GYMNASTS In Russia

Among gymnasts born in Russia, Nikolai Andrianov ranks 2Before him are Boris Shakhlin (1932). After him are Veikko Huhtanen (1919), Viktor Klimenko (1949), Mikhail Voronin (1945), Valentin Muratov (1928), Yuri Titov (1935), Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), Larisa Petrik (1949), Margarita Nikolaeva (1935), Yelena Davydova (1961), and Yelena Shushunova (1969).