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Vladimir Salnikov

1960 - Today

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Vladimir Valeryevich Salnikov (Russian: Владимир Валерьевич Сальников; born 21 May 1960) is a Russian former freestyle swimmer who set 12 world records in the 400, 800 and 1,500 metre events. Nicknamed the "Tsar of the Pool", "Monster of the Waves" and "Leningrad Express", he was the first person to swim under fifteen minutes in the 1500 m freestyle and also the first person to swim under eight minutes in the 800 m freestyle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Salnikov has received more than 103,898 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimir Salnikov is the 84th most popular swimmer (down from 38th in 2019), the 2,128th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,835th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Swimmer.

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  • 30

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  • 3.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Vladimir Salnikov ranks 84 out of 709Before him are Matt Biondi, Åke Borg, Géza Kádas, Melissa Belote, Pieter van den Hoogenband, and Don McKenzie. After him are Valéria Gyenge, Georg Zacharias, David Hammond, Max Hainle, Michael Gross, and Eleanor Garatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Vladimir Salnikov ranks 332Before him are Abel Resino, Plamen Oresharski, Marko Elsner, Steve Clark, David James Elliott, and Kim Milton Nielsen. After him are Phillip Rhee, Corine Mauch, Shinichi Morishita, Moaz al-Khatib, Olivier Gruner, and Lyudmila Andonova.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Salnikov ranks 2,128 out of 3,761Before him are Yelizaveta Chaikina (1918), Lyudmila Kasatkina (1925), Lev Shcherba (1880), Nikolay Umov (1846), Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), and Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922). After him are Boris Kuznetsov (1928), Gombojab Tsybikov (1873), Rufina Gasheva (1921), Klara Guseva (1937), Matvey Gusev (1826), and Manfred Schaefer (1943).

Among SWIMMERS In Russia

Among swimmers born in Russia, Vladimir Salnikov ranks 2Before him are Alexander Popov (1971). After him are Oscar Grégoire (1877), Nikolai Pankin (1949), Denis Pankratov (1974), Igor Polyansky (1967), Natalia Ishchenko (1986), Yuliya Yefimova (1992), Svetlana Romashina (1989), Nina Zhivanevskaya (1977), Anastasia Davydova (1983), and Anastasiya Kirpichnikova (2000).