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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 10,990 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vasily Rudenkov is the 580th most popular athlete (up from 635th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 128th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belarusian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 580 out of 3,059Before him are Carl Silfverstrand, Alfred Swahn, Gioacchino Guaragna, Rafael Chimishkyan, Fred Alderman, and Morgan Taylor. After him are Fred Hansen, Igor Novikov, Ingemar Johansson, Hélène de Pourtalès, Dorothea Wierer, and Cornelius Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 375Before him are Ferenc Szojka, Irwin Winkler, Kiki Dimoula, Skeeter Davis, Olja Ivanjicki, and Roger Planchon. After him are John Zizioulas, Suchitra Sen, Hal Connolly, Peter Gilmore, Chiharu Igaya, and Ferry Graf. Among people deceased in 1982, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 205Before him are Tauno Palo, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, Pedro Solé, Hércules de Miranda, Raghunath Murmu, and Archibald MacLeish. After him are Satchel Paige, Charles Walters, Erik Larsson, Carmelo Robledo, Arturo Rodríguez, and John Gardner.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 147 out of 330Before him are Sergey Ling (1937), Boris Galerkin (1871), Victoria Azarenka (1989), Vladimir Samsonov (1976), Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903), and Sergei Loznitsa (1964). After him are Sergey Gritsevets (1909), Nina Andrycz (1912), Anna Missuna (1868), Siarhei Tsikhanouski (1978), Natasha Zvereva (1971), and Lidia Wysocka (1916).

Among ATHLETES In Belarus

Among athletes born in Belarus, Vasily Rudenkov ranks 4Before him are Romuald Klim (1933), Leonid Taranenko (1956), and Tamara Tyshkevich (1931). After him are Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Darya Domracheva (1986), Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (1996), Ivan Tsikhan (1976), Igor Astapkovich (1963), Iryna Yatchenko (1965), Andrei Mikhnevich (1976), and Vyacheslav Yanovskiy (1957).