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Veikko Huhtanen

1919 - 1976

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Veikko Aarne Aleks Huhtanen (5 June 1919 – 29 January 1976) was a Finnish artistic gymnast. He was the most successful gymnast at the 1948 Summer Olympics, taking home five medals, including three gold medals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veikko Huhtanen has received more than 22,955 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Veikko Huhtanen is the 50th most popular gymnast (down from 33rd in 2019), the 1,766th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,318th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Veikko Huhtanen ranks 50 out of 183Before him are Yuri Titov, Lucien Démanet, Ferenc Kemény, Konrad Frey, Valentin Muratov, and Pietro Bianchi. After him are Haakon Sörvik, Masao Takemoto, Giorgio Zampori, George Eyser, Yelena Shushunova, and Mikhail Voronin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Veikko Huhtanen ranks 242Before him are Bahriye Üçok, Jocelyn Brando, Eric Thompson, Delfo Cabrera, Alan Brown, and Åke Seyffarth. After him are Frank Piasecki, Raúl Francisco Primatesta, Jacques Laurent, George Cadle Price, Gisela Uhlen, and Leona Woods. Among people deceased in 1976, Veikko Huhtanen ranks 185Before him are Nils Middelboe, Alexander Brailowsky, Taos Amrouche, Clarice Benini, Alfredo Dinale, and Paul Kossoff. After him are Margaret Leighton, Alfredo Porzio, Isidoro Sota, Wilhelmina von Bremen, Maria Klenova, and Hermann Jónasson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Veikko Huhtanen ranks 1,766 out of 3,262Before him are Carl Enckell (1876), Igor Novikov (1929), Geydar Dzhemal (1947), Nikolay Lvov (1753), Maria Yermolova (1853), and Alexander Ovechkin (1985). After him are Lev Chugaev (1873), Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Oleg Menshikov (1960), Igor Kvasha (1933), and Aleksei Arbuzov (1908).

Among GYMNASTS In Russia

Among gymnasts born in Russia, Veikko Huhtanen ranks 5Before him are Nikolai Andrianov (1952), Boris Shakhlin (1932), Yuri Titov (1935), and Valentin Muratov (1928). After him are Yelena Shushunova (1969), Mikhail Voronin (1945), Svetlana Khorkina (1979), Viktor Klimenko (1949), Larisa Petrik (1949), Aleksanteri Saarvala (1913), and Dmitry Bilozerchev (1966).