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Veikko Karvonen

1926 - 2007

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Veikko Leo Karvonen (5 January 1926 – 1 August 2007) was a Finnish long-distance runner who mainly competed in the marathon. He won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veikko Karvonen has received more than 33,362 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Veikko Karvonen is the 514th most popular athlete (down from 252nd in 2019), the 1,684th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,347th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Veikko Karvonen ranks 514 out of 6,025. Before him are Johnny Hayes, Hector Dyer, Władysław Komar, Mahmoud Fayad, Jacques Noël, and Heide Rosendahl. After him are Armas Taipale, Launceston Elliot, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Frank Loomis, Trine Hattestad, and Eugène Balme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Veikko Karvonen ranks 312. Before him are Inna Makarova, Abdur Rahman Biswas, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, Raaj Kumar, William Wakefield Baum, and Heino Kruus. After him are Edmund Purdom, Ann Curtis, Anahit Tsitsikian, Ibrahim Nasir, George Rhoden, and John Ericson. Among people deceased in 2007, Veikko Karvonen ranks 248. Before him are Gyula Zsivótzky, Teoctist Arăpașu, Christian d'Oriola, Carlo Clerici, Emma Tillman, and Iccho Itoh. After him are John Flynn, Art Buchwald, Rosalio José Castillo Lara, Izumi Sakai, Kenji Miyamoto, and László Kovács.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Veikko Karvonen ranks 1,684 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Gusinsky (1952), Dmitry Grave (1863), Boris Andreyev (1915), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Aleksei Losev (1893), and Aleksei Arbuzov (1908). After him are Galina Volchek (1933), Alexander Serafimovich (1863), Semyon Frank (1877), Iya Savvina (1936), Gleb Uspensky (1843), and Andrey Voronikhin (1759).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Veikko Karvonen ranks 30. Before him are Bernd Kannenberg (1942), Maria Itkina (1932), Irina Privalova (1968), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), and Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934). After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Yelena Gorchakova (1933), Vasili Kuznetsov (1932), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), and Valeri Popenchenko (1937).

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