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Olga Korbut

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Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a Belarusian retired gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union. Nicknamed the "Sparrow from Minsk", she won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the Soviet team, and was the inaugural inductee to the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1988. Korbut retired from gymnastics in 1977 at the age of 22, considered young for gymnasts of the period, but her influence and legacy in gymnastics were far-reaching. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olga Korbut has received more than 2,928,759 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Olga Korbut is the 3rd most popular gymnast (up from 4th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Olga Korbut ranks 3 out of 370. Before her are Nadia Comăneci, and Larisa Latynina. After her are Věra Čáslavská, Carl Schuhmann, Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Sawao Kato, Boris Shakhlin, and Nikolai Andrianov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Olga Korbut ranks 25. Before her are Li Keqiang, Akira Toriyama, Angus Young, Mo Yan, Ludovico Einaudi, and Héctor Cúper. After her are Valery Gerasimov, Whoopi Goldberg, Katalin Karikó, Nina Hagen, Dodi Fayed, and Chow Yun-fat.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Olga Korbut ranks 14 out of 368. Before her are Alexander Lukashenko (1954), Stanisław August Poniatowski (1732), Andrei Gromyko (1909), Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), and Meyer Lansky (1902). After her are Zhores Alferov (1930), Zalman Shazar (1889), Ryszard Kapuściński (1932), Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), and Isser Harel (1912).

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Among GYMNASTS In Belarus

Among gymnasts born in Belarus, Olga Korbut ranks 1. After her are Vitaly Scherbo (1972), Svetlana Boginskaya (1973), Marina Lobatch (1970), Melitina Staniouta (1993), Uladzislau Hancharou (1995), Ivan Litvinovich (2001), Alina Harnasko (2001), Karyna Yarmolenka (2000), Anastasiya Rybakova (2000), Anastasiya Malakanava (2003), and Hanna Haidukevich (2001).

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