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Oleg Goncharenko

1931 - 1986

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Oleg Georgievich Goncharenko (Russian: Олег Георгиевич Гончаренко, Ukrainian: Олег Георгійович Гончаренко) (18 August 1931 – 16 December 1986), Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, was the first male Soviet speed skater to become World Allround Champion. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Oleg Goncharenko made his international debut in 1953 and promptly became World Allround Champion. He would win two more World Allround Championships after that, as well as two European Allround Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oleg Goncharenko has received more than 17,201 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Oleg Goncharenko is the 69th most popular skater (down from 57th in 2019), the 790th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 633rd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 69 out of 483. Before him are Sissy Schwarz, Per Thorén, Lilly Scholz, Viktor Kosichkin, Andrea Kékesy, and Ludwig Wrede. After him are Eva Pawlik, Denise Biellmann, Kurt Oppelt, Felix Kaspar, Helga Haase, and Peggy Fleming.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 404. Before him are Jaime Ramírez, Hubert Sumlin, Nat Adderley, Sonny Clark, Norberto Boggio, and Kiki Dimoula. After him are Shuhrat Abbosov, István Gulyás, Yaakov Ziv, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, Raúl Belén, and Riane Eisler. Among people deceased in 1986, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 216. Before him are Willy Kaiser, Lothar Bolz, Joyce Mansour, Tommy Douglas, Jean Cassou, and Lyudmila Pakhomova. After him are Alberto Zorrilla, Leona Woods, Noboru Terada, Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Enrique Tierno Galván, and Volodymyr Pravyk.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 790 out of 1,365. Before him are Volodymyr Kaplychnyi (1944), Roman Viktyuk (1936), Sergei Magnitsky (1972), Andriy Lunin (1999), Natalia Dudinskaya (1912), and Denys Monastyrsky (1980). After him are Sergei Sviatchenko (1952), Vasyl Rats (1961), Michael Levytsky (1774), Andriy Voronin (1979), Adam Rapacki (1909), and Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi (1943).

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Among SKATERS In Ukraine

Among skaters born in Ukraine, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 1. After him are Tatiana Navka (1975), Aljona Savchenko (1984), Oksana Baiul (1977), Viktor Petrenko (1969), Evgeni Platov (1967), Oksana Grishuk (1974), Artur Dmitriev (1968), Tatiana Volosozhar (1986), and Ruslan Honcharov (1973).

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