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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 9,811 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Valeriy Pidluzhnyy is the 216th most popular athlete (up from 1,181st in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 725th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 216 out of 3,059. Before him are Veikko Kankkonen, Gyula Zsivótzky, Adhemar da Silva, Platt Adams, Harald Tammer, and Ken McArthur. After him are Jonathan Edwards, Milka Babović, Yang Chuan-kwang, Parry O'Brien, Samuel Jones, and Arthur Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 217. Before him are Don Miguel Ruiz, Bernard Lacombe, Simon MacCorkindale, Pat Cox, Gaëtan Dugas, and Paul Reubens. After him are Frank Schwalba-Hoth, Gregg Henry, Udo Voigt, Jorge Olguín, Johnny Thunders, and Gianfranco Fini. Among people deceased in 2021, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 346. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Gustavo Noboa, Ester Mägi, Norman Lloyd, Andrej Hoteev, and Ron Flowers. After him are Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Dimitri Kitsikis, Friederike Mayröcker, Robert Marchand, Jean-Pierre Bacri, and Sanpei Shirato.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 501 out of 1,083. Before him are Mykola Pymonenko (1862), Denis Pushilin (1981), Olena Zelenska (1978), Anatoliy Byshovets (1946), David Bergelson (1884), and Valentin Mankin (1938). After him are Maciej Rataj (1884), Aleksandr Gauk (1893), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Alexander Granach (1890), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and Aleksandr Bogomolets (1881).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Valeriy Pidluzhnyy ranks 12. Before him are Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Faina Melnik (1945), and Inessa Kravets (1966). After him are Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), Mykola Avilov (1948), Nina Dumbadze (1919), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), Irina Kirichenko (1937), and Yevhen Arzhanov (1948).

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