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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 29,502 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Vera Krepkina is the 78th most popular athlete (up from 155th in 2019), the 712th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,134th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vera Krepkina ranks 78 out of 6,025. Before her are Irina Press, Ralph Boston, Al Oerter, Fernando, Pietro Mennea, and Yelena Isinbayeva. After her are Shizo Kanakuri, Irena Szewińska, Jürgen Schult, Irving Baxter, Dana Zátopková, and Mohammed Gammoudi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Vera Krepkina ranks 133. Before her are Yasukazu Tanaka, György Konrád, Emanuel Ungaro, Ko Un, Joachim Kroll, and Lubomyr Husar. After her are Sheldon Adelson, Julie Newmar, Luis Bacalov, Dianne Feinstein, Hannelore Kohl, and Mátyás Szűrös. Among people deceased in 2023, Vera Krepkina ranks 165. Before her are Salif Keïta, Joss Ackland, Ken Block, Ralph Boston, Ion Druță, and Terry Funk. After her are Carlo Mazzone, Chaim Topol, Richard Roundtree, Tom Sizemore, Earl Boen, and Horst-Dieter Höttges.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Krepkina ranks 712 out of 3,761. Before her are Yegor Ligachyov (1920), Vladimir of Novgorod (1020), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Yevdokiya Mekshilo (1931), Lev Rudnev (1885), and Yelena Isinbayeva (1982). After her are Chaim Rumkowski (1877), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), Vladislav Tretiak (1952), Nikolai Krylenko (1885), Countess of Ségur (1799), and Alexei Savrasov (1830).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vera Krepkina ranks 5. Before her are Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Valeriy Brumel (1942), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), and Yelena Isinbayeva (1982). After her are Irena Szewińska (1946), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Galina Zybina (1931), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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