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Vyacheslav Vedenin

1941 - 2021

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Vyacheslav Petrovich Vedenin (Russian: Вячесла́в Петро́вич Веденин; 1 October 1941 – 22 October 2021) was a Soviet cross-country skier. His silver medal over 50 km was the only medal won by a Soviet male skier at the 1968 Olympics, as his 4×10 km team placed fourth. At the next Olympics he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union and won three medals, with golds in the 30 km and 4×10 km and a bronze in the 50 km. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vyacheslav Vedenin has received more than 28,431 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vyacheslav Vedenin is the 1,576th most popular athlete (down from 138th in 2019), the 2,326th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,053rd in 2019) and the 85th most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 1,576 out of 6,025. Before him are József Kovács, Georgia Coleman, Jerome Biffle, Waldemar Tietgens, Ghiță Licu, and Frederick Sheffield. After him are Irmgard Praetz, Siegfried Purner, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Frank Odberg, Väinö Siikaniemi, and Witold Woyda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 548. Before him are Luigi Ferrando, Miroslav Verner, Irma Thomas, Nelson López, Takao Sakurai, and Mário da Graça Machungo. After him are Faith Leech, Magne Thomassen, Shirley Stelfox, Neal Adams, Antonina Lazareva, and Jacques Cheminade. Among people deceased in 2021, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 546. Before him are Jean-Denis Bredin, Enrique Chazarreta, Vicente Cantatore, Lester Bird, Jonathan Penrose, and Ray Kennedy. After him are Michael Constantine, Keri Hulme, Mikhail Zhelev, Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Momčilo Vukotić, and Markie Post.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 2,326 out of 3,761. Before him are Leonid Slutsky (1971), Tatyana Averina (1950), Andrei Chesnokov (1966), Oscar Grégoire (1877), Ivan Lepyokhin (1740), and Oleg Zhakov (1905). After him are Leonid Shamkovich (1923), Ivan Okhlobystin (1966), Yevgeniya Simonova (1955), Mikhail Kornienko (1960), Boris Mayorov (1938), and Vitaly Mutko (1958).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 85. Before him are Galina Gorokhova (1938), Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953), Olga Bondarenko (1960), Ellina Zvereva (1960), Vladimir Kiselyov (1957), and Vladimir Nevzorov (1952). After him are Antonina Lazareva (1941), Ludmila Engquist (1964), Lyudmila Titova (1946), Konstantin Volkov (1960), Antonina Seredina (1929), and Aleksey Spiridonov (1951).

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