1955 - Today
Olga Valentinovna Korbut (born 16 May 1955) is a retired Belarusian 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 2,264,140 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Korbut is the 4th most popular gymnast, the 40th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Gymnast.
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Among gymnasts, Olga Korbut ranks 4 out of 183. Before her are Nadia Comăneci, Larisa Latynina, and Věra Čáslavská. After her are Carl Schuhmann, Alfred Flatow, Ágnes Keleti, Hermann Weingärtner, Leon Štukelj, Nikolai Andrianov, Sawao Kato, and Alina Kabaeva.
1961 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 1
1934 - Present
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 2
1942 - 2016
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 3
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 4
1869 - 1946
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 5
1869 - 1942
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 6
1921 - Present
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 7
1864 - 1919
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 8
1898 - 1999
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 9
1952 - 2011
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 10
1946 - Present
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 11
1983 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1955, Olga Korbut ranks 53. Before her are Brendan Gleeson, François Cluzet, Haitham bin Tariq, Yuriy Sedykh, Eddie Van Halen, and Richard Schiff. After her are Zucchero Fornaciari, Binali Yıldırım, Michael Rooker, Ante Gotovina, Pietro Parolin, and Al-Waleed bin Talal.
1955 - Present
HPI: 60.43
Rank: 47
1955 - Present
HPI: 60.33
Rank: 48
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 49
1955 - 2021
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 50
1955 - 2020
HPI: 59.57
Rank: 51
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 52
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 53
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.27
Rank: 54
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 55
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 56
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 57
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 58
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 59
Among people born in Belarus, Olga Korbut ranks 40 out of 330. Before her are Rogneda of Polotsk (966), Yakub Kolas (1882), Zhores Alferov (1930), Elena Glinskaya (1510), Bronislava Nijinska (1891), and Nikolay Krestinsky (1883). After her are Sophia of Minsk (1140), Ivan Yakubovsky (1912), Aleksei Antonov (1896), Marek Edelman (1922), Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110), and Otto Schmidt (1891).
966 - 1002
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 34
1882 - 1956
HPI: 60.03
Rank: 35
1930 - 2019
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 36
1510 - 1538
HPI: 59.55
Rank: 37
1891 - 1972
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 38
1883 - 1938
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 39
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 40
1140 - 1198
HPI: 59.32
Rank: 41
1912 - 1976
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 42
1896 - 1962
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 43
1922 - 2009
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 44
1110 - 1173
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 45
1891 - 1956
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 46
Among gymnasts born in Belarus, Olga Korbut ranks 1. After her are Vitaly Scherbo (1972), Svetlana Boginskaya (1973), Uladzislau Hancharou (1995), and Ivan Litvinovich (2001).
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 1
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 2
1973 - Present
HPI: 42.08
Rank: 3
1995 - Present
HPI: 23.97
Rank: 4
2001 - Present
HPI: 22.27
Rank: 5