ATHLETE

Vasily Rudenkov

1931 - 1982

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Vasily Vasilyevich Rudenkov (Belarusian: Васіль Васілевіч Рудзянкоў; Russian: Василий Васильевич Руденков; 3 May 1931 – 2 November 1982) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the hammer throw. He was born in Zhlobin. Rudenkov competed for the USSR in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the hammer throw where he won the gold medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Rudenkov has received more than 12,166 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vasily Rudenkov is the 652nd most popular athlete (down from 580th in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 147th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 652 out of 6,025. Before him are Marcello Bertinetti, Martti Marttelin, Jaak Uudmäe, Ondina Valla, Anders Gärderud, and István Rózsavölgyi. After him are Peter Frenkel, Imre Polyák, Lauri Lehtinen, Janne Lundblad, Maricica Puică, and Elfriede Kaun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 373. Before him are Lindy Remigino, Dana Wynter, Arturo Pomar, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Hal Connolly, and Mady Mesplé. After him are Ernst Degner, Nick Adams, Shirley Verrett, Dimitar Dobrev, Konrad Stäheli, and Mino De Rossi. Among people deceased in 1982, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 199. Before him are Hitoshi Sasaki, Jean Batten, Carmelo Robledo, Beb Bakhuys, Pedro Solé, and Hal Foster. After him are Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Leonid Spirin, Alexander Abusch, Raisa Aronova, Jakob Streitle, and Francisco Martínez Soria.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 152 out of 368. Before him are Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903), Galina Lukashenko (1955), Sergei Sidorsky (1954), Sergey Ling (1937), Mikhail Illarionovich Vorontsov (1714), and Boris Gelfand (1968). After him are Masha Bruskina (1924), Natasha Zvereva (1971), Mikhail Chigir (1948), Victoria Azarenka (1989), Vitaly Scherbo (1972), and Leonid Taranenko (1956).

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Among ATHLETES In Belarus

Among athletes born in Belarus, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 3. Before him are Romuald Klim (1933), and Tamara Tyshkevich (1931). After him are Leonid Taranenko (1956), Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Darya Domracheva (1986), Rita Achkina (1938), Iryna Yatchenko (1965), Ivan Tsikhan (1976), Igor Astapkovich (1963), Aleksandr Karshakevich (1959), and Vyacheslav Yanovskiy (1957).

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