ATHLETE

Valeriy Brumel

1942 - 2003

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Valeriy Nikolayevich Brumel (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Брумель; 14 April 1942 – 26 January 2003) was a Soviet-Russian high jumper. The 1964 Olympic champion and multiple world record holder, he is regarded as one of the greatest athletes ever to compete in the high jump. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeriy Brumel has received more than 145,376 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Valeriy Brumel is the 53rd most popular athlete (down from 47th in 2019), the 649th most popular biography from Russia (down from 641st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Valeriy Brumel ranks 53 out of 6,025. Before him are Sohn Kee-chung, Tommie Smith, Coroebus of Elis, Alvin Kraenzlein, Gustavo Marzi, and Ole Einar Bjørndalen. After him are Jim Hines, Betty Robinson, Walter Schröder, Wilma Rudolph, Yuriy Sedykh, and Platt Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Valeriy Brumel ranks 167. Before him are Giuseppe Bertello, Adil Abdul-Mahdi, Don S. Davis, Linda Evans, Herbjørg Wassmo, and Prince Alexandre of Belgium. After him are Jozef Adamec, Zhou Yongkang, Robert Ballard, Andy Summers, Ruslan Khasbulatov, and Pierre Clémenti. Among people deceased in 2003, Valeriy Brumel ranks 74. Before him are Vasil Bykaŭ, Miloš Milutinović, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Michael Jeter, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Eizo Yuguchi. After him are Fritz Fischer, Ramón Serrano Suñer, Guy Thys, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Janko Bobetko, and Mohammed Dib.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Valeriy Brumel ranks 649 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Ivan Maisky (1884), Lilya Brik (1891), Valery Chkalov (1904), Pavel Dybenko (1889), and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862). After him are Taihō Kōki (1940), Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859), Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), and Dietrich von Saucken (1892).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Valeriy Brumel ranks 2. Before him are Vasily Alekseyev (1942). After him are Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Vera Krepkina (1933), Irena Szewińska (1946), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Galina Zybina (1931), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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