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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 193,375 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Tamara Press is the 23rd most popular athlete (up from 27th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 174th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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  • 190k

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  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tamara Press ranks 23 out of 3,059Before her are Florence Griffith Joyner, Yuriy Sedykh, Iolanda Balaș, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Javier Sotomayor, and Mike Powell. After her are Ray Ewry, Thomas Burke, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Leonidas of Rhodes, Lasse Virén, and Aladár Gerevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tamara Press ranks 73Before her are Angelo Badalamenti, Valentin Pavlov, Robert B. Wilson, Yılmaz Güney, Joseph Nye, and Fernando de la Rúa. After her are John Horton Conway, Cüneyt Arkın, Rafael Moneo, Yoshirō Mori, Thomas Nagel, and Maryse Condé. Among people deceased in 2021, Tamara Press ranks 103Before her are Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Lamine Diack, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Helen McCrory, Walter Mondale, and Nino Vaccarella. After her are Kjell Askildsen, David Yonggi Cho, Igor Oistrakh, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Christa Ludwig, and Kurt Westergaard.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 175 out of 1,083Before her are Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), Marina Mniszech (1588), Alexander Pechersky (1909), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Edgar de Wahl (1867), and Zinaida Serebriakova (1884). After her are Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Mstislav II of Kiev (1200), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Eupraxia of Kiev (1071), Igor Oistrakh (1931), and Dimitri Tiomkin (1894).

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 1After her are Irina Press (1939), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Leonid Bartenyev (1933), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Faina Melnik (1945), Inessa Kravets (1966), and Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952).