ATHLETE

Valeriy Pidluzhnyy

1952 - 2021

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Valeriy Vasylyovych Pidluzhny (Ukrainian: Підлужний Валерій Васильович; 22 August 1952 – 4 October 2021) was a long jumper who represented the Soviet Union. Born in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, he trained at the city's Trudovye Rezervy. A three-time Olympian, he won two silver medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships as well as a gold medal at the 1974 European Athletics Championships and a bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeriy Pidluzhnyy has received more than 10,234 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Valeriy Pidluzhnyy is the 1,868th most popular athlete (down from 216th in 2019), the 971st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 498th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 1,868 out of 6,025. Before him are Larry Black, Harry Voigt, Tony Nash, Fred Tootell, Henry Seiling, and Yelena Romanova. After him are Henri Cohen, Sheila Echols, Tadeusz Rut, László Jeney, Erwin Keller, and Kim Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 583. Before him are Inese Vaidere, Alan Cooper, Clayton Christensen, Mirandinha, Raúl González, and John Hiatt. After him are Harald Konopka, Riki Sorsa, Mathew Knowles, Doris Maletzki, Margitta Pufe, and Hossein Sheikholeslam. Among people deceased in 2021, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 578. Before him are Buta Singh, Lloyd Price, Roger Michell, Aleksandr Lenyov, Jean Kalala N'Tumba, and Satya Vrat Shastri. After him are William E. Thornton, Slide Hampton, Theodore Katsanevas, Graham McRae, Ottorino Sartor, and Ekkehard Fasser.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 971 out of 1,365. Before him are Mikhail Gurevich (1959), Sergei Semak (1976), Yulia Ryabchinskaya (1947), Ruslan Malinovskyi (1993), Pavel Morozenko (1939), and Dmitry Muserskiy (1988). After him are Iryna Vereshchuk (1979), Vera Brezhneva (1982), Natasha Yarovenko (1979), Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888), Ivan Bakanov (1975), and Larisa Neiland (1966).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 34. Before him are Yuliya Levchenko (1997), Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (1963), Svetlana Krachevskaya (1944), Taisia Chenchik (1936), Wiesław Maniak (1938), and Yulia Ryabchinskaya (1947). After him are Zhanna Pintusevich-Block (1972), Vita Styopina (1976), Valentyna Kozyr (1950), Nina Zyuskova (1952), Viktor Bryzhin (1962), and Yaroslava Mahuchikh (2001).

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