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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 and politician. 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 14,768 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Sylvi Saimo is the 1,179th most popular athlete (up from 1,321st in 2019), the 2,159th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,119th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Russian Athlete.

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  • 45.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Sylvi Saimo ranks 1,179 out of 6,025. Before her are Édouard Candeveau, Eric Carlberg, Liu Xiang, Erkki Kataja, Johannes Thingnes Bø, and Jan Mrvík. After her are Ivan Brown, Guinn Smith, Yuriy Lituyev, Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Emil Magnusson, and Paul Weinstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Sylvi Saimo ranks 333. Before her are Ersilio Tonini, David Goodall, Harry Winter, Erling Evensen, Mario Luzi, and Ivan Jazbinšek. After her are Heidi Kabel, Louis Gabrillargues, Yuri Linnik, Sven Fahlman, Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, and Jack Parsons. Among people deceased in 2004, Sylvi Saimo ranks 263. Before her are Victor Argo, Yordan Radichkov, Fernando Campos, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Lennox Miller, and Bill Nicholson. After her are Guinn Smith, Carl Anderson, Raja Ramanna, Jean Graczyk, Mulk Raj Anand, and Alexey Korneyev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sylvi Saimo ranks 2,159 out of 3,761. Before her are Yakov Polonsky (1819), Eugen Walaschek (1917), Boris Tishchenko (1939), Ivan Kuratov (1839), Sergey Melikov (1965), and Leonid Sobinov (1872). After her are Yuriy Lituyev (1925), Dmitri Anosov (1936), Sten Suvio (1911), Kostya Tszyu (1969), Ivan Dmitriev (1760), and Aleksei Paramonov (1925).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Sylvi Saimo ranks 62. Before her are Valery Muratov (1946), Andrey Abduvaliyev (1966), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), German Sveshnikov (1937), Jorma Valkama (1928), and Lyudmila Andonova (1960). After her are Yuriy Lituyev (1925), Vladimir Belousov (1946), Valentin Gavrilov (1946), Maria Golubnichaya (1924), Nikolay Zimyatov (1955), and Tamara Manina (1934).

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