ATHLETE

Nina Ponomaryova

1929 - 2016

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Nina Apollonovna Ponomaryova (née Romashkova; Russian: Нина Аполлоновна Пономарёва (Ромашкова); 27 April 1929 – 19 August 2016) was a Russian discus thrower and the first Soviet Olympic champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nina Ponomaryova has received more than 42,043 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Nina Ponomaryova is the 429th most popular athlete (down from 196th in 2019), the 1,615th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nina Ponomaryova ranks 429 out of 6,025Before her are Fred Alderman, Lidiya Alfeyeva, Veikko Kankkonen, Klaus Dibiasi, Robert Alt, and Irina Privalova. After her are Grete Waitz, Yang Chuan-kwang, Lyudmila Bragina, Victor Willems, Patrik Sjöberg, and Gergely Kulcsár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Nina Ponomaryova ranks 325Before her are Larry Collins, Shozo Sasahara, Henry E. Holt, Chi Haotian, André Darrigade, and Desmond Hoyte. After her are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Henri Pousseur, Rafael Chimishkyan, Halyna Sevruk, Azzeddine Laraki, and Lúcio Lara. Among people deceased in 2016, Nina Ponomaryova ranks 291Before her are Aurèle Nicolet, Fritz Stern, Georges Balandier, Akhtar Mansour, Pierre Aubert, and Prince Buster. After her are James Joseph Dresnok, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Lúcio Lara, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, José Parra Martínez, and Muhamed Mujić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nina Ponomaryova ranks 1,615 out of 3,761Before her are Teuvo Aura (1912), Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1898), Yuri Bondarev (1924), Alexei Lubimov (1944), Irina Privalova (1968), and Nikolai Kryuchkov (1911). After her are Natalia Kuchinskaya (1949), Yuri Vizbor (1934), Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907), Viktoria Mullova (1959), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), and Lyudmila Bragina (1943).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Nina Ponomaryova ranks 27Before her are Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Veikko Hakulinen (1925), Olha Bryzhina (1963), Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Maria Itkina (1932), and Irina Privalova (1968). After her are Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Veikko Karvonen (1926), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), and Yelena Gorchakova (1933).