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Valeri Popenchenko

1937 - 1975

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Valeri Vladimirovich Popenchenko (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Попенченко, 26 August 1937 – 15 February 1975) was a Soviet Olympic boxer who competed in the middleweight division (−75 kg). During his career he won 200 out of 213 bouts; he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and European titles in 1963 and 1965. He was named the Outstanding Boxer of the 1964 Olympics and given the Val Barker Trophy, becoming the only Soviet boxer to receive the honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeri Popenchenko has received more than 39,445 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Valeri Popenchenko is the 582nd most popular athlete (down from 381st in 2019), the 1,780th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,539th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 582 out of 6,025. Before him are Norbert Schemansky, Eduardo Guerrero, Patrick Ryan, Tommy Hampson, Karen Hoff, and Anatoly Alyabyev. After him are Don Thompson, Émile Grumiaux, Ray Barbuti, Andreas Krieger, Karel Mejta Sr, and Isao Okano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 352. Before him are George Chuvalo, Antonio Betancort, Peter Fleischmann, Ron Leibman, Sergey Ling, and Toribio Ticona Porco. After him are Christina Schollin, Brian Redman, Zhang Jie, Pat Roach, Barbro Lindgren, and Jim Harrison. Among people deceased in 1975, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 183. Before him are Ernst Alexanderson, Bas Jan Ader, Max Gluckman, Piero Dusio, Syed Nazrul Islam, and Rod Serling. After him are Benjamin Jekhowsky, Nilo Murtinho Braga, Boris Babochkin, Marc Wright, Carl O. Sauer, and Carl Silfverstrand.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 1,780 out of 3,761. Before him are Leon Benois (1856), Mukhu Aliyev (1940), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), Sergei Sukhoruchenkov (1956), Paul von Plehwe (1850), and Valentin Bubukin (1933). After him are Stanislav Rostotsky (1922), Karl Maximovich (1827), Tatyana Vasilyeva (1947), Anatoliy Serdyukov (1962), Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900), and Yury Malyshev (1941).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 36. Before him are Veikko Karvonen (1926), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Yelena Gorchakova (1933), Vasili Kuznetsov (1932), and Anatoly Alyabyev (1951). After him are Leonid Spirin (1932), Anatoly Mikhaylov (1936), Alexander Tikhonov (1947), Anfisa Reztsova (1964), Tatyana Anisimova (1949), and Vyacheslav Lemeshev (1952).

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