New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ATHLETE

Valeri Popenchenko

1937 - 1975

Photo of Valeri Popenchenko

Icon of person Valeri Popenchenko

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 35,687 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Valeri Popenchenko is the 381st most popular athlete, the 1,543rd most popular biography from Russia and the 27th most popular Russian Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 36k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Valeri Popenchenkos by language


Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 381 out of 3,059Before him are Ottavio Missoni, Sándor Rozsnyói, Netti Witziers-Timmer, József Csermák, Manuel Plaza, and Hans Jacob Nielsen. After him are Karl-Erik Nilsson, Jaroslav Holík, Charles Gmelin, Frank Foss, Nina Dumbadze, and Edvin Wide.

Most Popular Athletes in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 300Before him are José Augusto, Nikolay Drozdov, Jorge Cafrune, Nélida Piñon, Nadia Gamal, and Ali Soilih. After him are Hiroshi Ninomiya, Giorgi Shengelaia, Luiz Bueno, Jackie Collins, José Araquistáin, and Kader Khan. Among people deceased in 1975, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 163Before him are Rod Serling, Fritz Wotruba, Gösta Andersson, James Blish, Mascha Kaléko, and Bas Jan Ader. After him are Larry Fine, Dave Alexander, Antonín Vodička, Max Lorenz, Javier Ambrois, and Lajos Steiner.

Others Born in 1937

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1975

Go to all Rankings

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 1,543 out of 3,262Before him are Aleksey Remizov (1877), Simon Ushakov (1626), Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903), Ivan Kireyevsky (1806), Feodor Gladkov (1883), and Boris Grebenshchikov (1953). After him are Yuri Bondarev (1924), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Vatslav Vorovsky (1871), Alexander Khalifman (1966), Klara Rumyanova (1929), and Roman Vishniac (1897).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Valeri Popenchenko ranks 27Before him are Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Maria Itkina (1932), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), and Tamara Bykova (1958). After him are Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Igor Nikulin (1960), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Irina Privalova (1968), Galina Zybina (1931), and Aleksandra Chudina (1923).