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Tamara Press

1937 - 2021

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Tamara Natanovna Press (10 May 1937 – 26 April 2021) was a Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962. Between 1959 and 1965, she set 11 world records: five in the shot put and six in the discus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tamara Press has received more than 213,139 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Tamara Press is the 27th most popular athlete (down from 23rd in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 174th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tamara Press ranks 27 out of 6,025. Before her are Mike Powell, Stefka Kostadinova, Florence Griffith Joyner, Ellery Harding Clark, Iolanda Balaș, and Hannes Kolehmainen. After her are Lucas, Marita Koch, Luz Long, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Frank Zane, and Sigfrid Edström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tamara Press ranks 69. Before her are Robert Lucas Jr., Mario Capecchi, Hélène Cixous, Sigmund Jähn, Tony Burton, and George Takei. After her are Cüneyt Arkın, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Dragoslav Šekularac, Tamara Bunke, Hunter S. Thompson, and Yılmaz Güney. Among people deceased in 2021, Tamara Press ranks 74. Before her are Lina Wertmüller, Jean-Luc Nancy, Pat Hitchcock, John McAfee, Kentaro Miura, and Abdul Qadeer Khan. After her are Larry Flynt, Milva, Mamnoon Hussain, Walter Mondale, Hannu Mikkola, and Bertrand Tavernier.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 165 out of 1,365. Before her are Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Boris Savinkov (1879), Richard von Mises (1883), Henryk Siemiradzki (1843), Yevhen Konovalets (1891), and Serge Lifar (1904). After her are Heinrich Neuhaus (1888), Andriy Melnyk (1890), Sigismund Korybut (1395), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Marina Mniszech (1588), and Alexander Pechersky (1909).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 1. After her are Irina Press (1939), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Inessa Kravets (1966), Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930).

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