ATHLETE

Pyotr Bolotnikov

1930 - 2013

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Pyotr Grigoryevich Bolotnikov (Russian: Пётр Григо́рьевич Боло́тников; 8 March 1930 – 20 December 2013) was a Soviet Track and field athlete who competed mainly in long-distance running events. He was the winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Born in Zinovkino, Krasnoslobodsky District, Mordovian ASSR (now the Republic of Mordovia), Bolotnikov started athletics only at age twenty, when he joined the Soviet Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pyotr Bolotnikov has received more than 28,888 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Pyotr Bolotnikov is the 110th most popular athlete (down from 97th in 2019), the 922nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 910th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 110 out of 6,025Before him are Theagenes of Thasos, Edwin Moses, Gaston Roelants, Volodymyr Holubnychy, Thomas Curtis, and Donald Arnold. After him are Haile Gebrselassie, Egil Danielsen, Ivanka Khristova, Sherm Clark, Eric Liddell, and Michel Jazy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 195Before him are Aleksandar Matanović, Yuan Longping, Yuri Artyukhin, Elza Soares, Jean Ferrat, and Hussain Muhammad Ershad. After him are Katherine Jackson, Walter Mischel, John Barth, Clifford Brown, Tadao Kobayashi, and Néstor Almendros. Among people deceased in 2013, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 155Before him are Amedeo Amadei, Pál Csernai, Tony Sheridan, Manolo Escobar, Bruno Metsu, and Anatoly Onoprienko. After him are Eiji Toyoda, Clive Burr, Elmore Leonard, Ronnie Biggs, Hilary Koprowski, and Colin Davis.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 922 out of 3,761Before him are Kuzma Minin (1616), Valery Gazzaev (1954), Volin (1882), Friedrich Konrad Beilstein (1838), Sergei Lyapunov (1859), and Boris Podolsky (1896). After him are Alexander Novikov (1900), Şihabetdin Märcani (1818), Georgy Babakin (1914), Evgeny Kissin (1971), Léonide Massine (1896), and Konstantin Leontiev (1831).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 9Before him are Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Vera Krepkina (1933), Irena Szewińska (1946), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), and Viktor Mamatov (1937). After him are Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Galina Zybina (1931), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), and Nadezhda Chizhova (1945).