1937 - Today
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 168,689 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Tamara Press is the 27th most popular athlete (down from 17th in 2019), the 174th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 155th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Athlete.
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Among athletes, Tamara Press ranks 27 out of 3,055. Before her are Iolanda Balaș, Coroebus of Elis, Bobby Morrow, Wilma Rudolph, Sohn Kee-chung, and Ben Johnson. After her are Dora Ratjen, Al Oerter, Mike Powell, Javier Sotomayor, Éva Székely, and Ellery Harding Clark.
1936 - 2016
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 21
800 BC - 800 BC
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 22
1935 - 2020
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 23
1940 - 1994
HPI: 68.28
Rank: 24
1912 - 2002
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 25
1961 - Present
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 26
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 27
1918 - 2008
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 28
1936 - 2007
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 29
1963 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 30
1967 - Present
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 31
1927 - 2020
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 32
1874 - 1949
HPI: 67.28
Rank: 33
Among people born in 1937, Tamara Press ranks 88. Before her are Joseph Nye, Vittorio Brambilla, Rafael Moneo, Neeme Järvi, Thomas Nagel, and Ronald Venetiaan. After her are Valentin Pavlov, Cüneyt Arkın, Nikolai Kapustin, Keizō Obuchi, Anatoly Sobchak, and Hélène Cixous.
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 82
1937 - 2001
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 83
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 84
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 85
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 86
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 87
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 88
1937 - 2003
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 89
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 90
1937 - 2020
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 91
1937 - 2000
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 92
1937 - 2000
HPI: 67.43
Rank: 93
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 94
Among people born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 174 out of 913. Before her are Louis B. Mayer (1884), Paul Muni (1895), Pavel Axelrod (1850), Leonid Kogan (1924), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), and Cyril Genik (1857). After her are Bruno Schulz (1892), Bion of Borysthenes (-325), Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (1819), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082), and Sergei Winogradsky (1856).
1884 - 1957
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 168
1895 - 1967
HPI: 67.96
Rank: 169
1850 - 1928
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 170
1924 - 1982
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 171
1547 - 1620
HPI: 67.84
Rank: 172
1857 - 1925
HPI: 67.83
Rank: 173
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 174
1892 - 1942
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 175
325 BC - 246 BC
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 176
1819 - 1887
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 177
1878 - 1972
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 178
1082 - 1139
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 179
1856 - 1953
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 180
Among athletes born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 1. After her are Irina Press (1939), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Faina Melnik (1945), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930).
1937 - Present
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 1
1939 - 2004
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 2
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 3
1927 - 1975
HPI: 63.15
Rank: 4
1939 - Present
HPI: 63.03
Rank: 5
1936 - Present
HPI: 62.66
Rank: 6
1962 - Present
HPI: 62.59
Rank: 7
1952 - 2020
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 8
1940 - Present
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 9
1945 - 2016
HPI: 61.13
Rank: 10
1938 - 2016
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 11
1930 - 2013
HPI: 60.50
Rank: 12