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Sylvi Saimo

1914 - 2004

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Sylvi Riitta Saimo (née Sikiö, 12 November 1914 – 12 March 2004) was a Finnish sprint canoeist. She was the first female Finnish Olympic Champion at the Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in K-1 500 m at the 1952 Summer Olympics. She also competed in cross-country skiing, athletics and orienteering. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sylvi Saimo has received more than 13,451 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sylvi Saimo is the 1,322nd most popular athlete (down from 715th in 2019), the 2,123rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,702nd in 2019) and the 77th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Sylvi Saimo ranks 1,322 out of 3,059Before her are Jan Egil Storholt, Ellen Streidt, Isabelle Daniels, Kazimierz Paździor, Roger Gautier, and Paula Ivan. After her are Tim Montgomery, Víctor Peralta, Iván Pedroso, Freddie Wolff, Jerzy Kaczmarek, and Ruth Beitia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Sylvi Saimo ranks 344Before her are Grete Mostny, Geoffrey Unsworth, Hanna Neumann, Bob Gerard, Ward Kimball, and Akhtar Hameed Khan. After her are Sam Hanks, Forrest Towns, Clayton Moore, Hans Theilig, Carlo Biagi, and Jack Medica. Among people deceased in 2004, Sylvi Saimo ranks 260Before her are Jacek Kaczmarski, Nirupa Roy, Robert Bacher, Bill Pickering, Alan King, and Kamisese Mara. After her are Ol' Dirty Bastard, Beyers Naudé, Fred Ebb, Richard Dembo, Emlyn Hughes, and Ugo Ferrante.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sylvi Saimo ranks 2,123 out of 3,262Before her are Ellina Zvereva (1960), Fyodor Cherenkov (1959), Yury Usachov (1957), Andriy Nesmachniy (1979), Kseniya Rappoport (1974), and Andrei Chesnokov (1966). After her are Vladimir Barmin (1909), Mikhail Kornienko (1960), Boris Tatushin (1933), Polina Gagarina (1987), Mikhail Tyurin (1960), and Vladimir Astapovsky (1946).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Sylvi Saimo ranks 77Before her are Tatyana Lebedeva (1976), Rinnat Safin (1940), Antonina Lazareva (1941), Nikolai Puchkov (1930), Mark Midler (1931), and Ellina Zvereva (1960). After her are Yuriy Tyukalov (1930), Ardalion Ignatyev (1930), German Sveshnikov (1937), Viktor Rashchupkin (1950), Viktor Markin (1957), and Konstantin Volkov (1960).