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Vera Krepkina

1933 - 2023

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Vera Samuilovna Krepkina (later Kalashnikova, Russian: Вера Самуиловна Крепкина (Калашникова); 15 April 1933 – 25 April 2023) was a Soviet-Ukrainian track and field athlete. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics. At all these Olympics she finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay and was eliminated in the heats of the 100 m sprint. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vera Krepkina has received more than 27,375 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Vera Krepkina is the 155th most popular athlete (down from 130th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from Russia (down from 972nd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vera Krepkina ranks 155 out of 3,059Before her are Nils von Kantzow, Francisco Lázaro, Tilly Fleischer, Harrison Dillard, Galina Chistyakova, and Juan Carlos Zabala. After her are Viggo Jensen, Bob King, Vladimir Kuts, Ralph Boston, Esther Brand, and Gunnar Höckert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Vera Krepkina ranks 211Before her are Hope Lange, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Gene Kranz, Dennis Viollet, Tsai Chin, and Kamal Ganzouri. After her are Ilya Kabakov, Josef Kadraba, Nicola Pietrangeli, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, and Richard Williams. Among people deceased in 2023, Vera Krepkina ranks 162Before her are Hugh Hudson, Earl Boen, Stella Stevens, Torben Ulrich, Ian Hacking, and Walter Cunningham. After her are Ilya Kabakov, Bobby Hull, Ralph Boston, Joss Ackland, Inna Churikova, and Rita Lee.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Krepkina ranks 1,136 out of 3,262Before her are Raimonds Vējonis (1966), Yakov Protazanov (1881), Serge Poliakoff (1900), Alexander Tormasov (1752), Grigory Romanov (1923), and Mikhail Khorobrit (1229). After her are Catherine Breshkovsky (1844), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), Vasily Agapkin (1884), Kaj Franck (1911), and Vasily Rozanov (1856).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vera Krepkina ranks 11Before her are Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Irena Szewińska (1946), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), and Yevgeny Grishin (1931). After her are Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Sergey Litvinov (1958), Alexander Ragulin (1941), and Veikko Karvonen (1926).