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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 25,564 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Vyacheslav Vedenin is the 138th most popular athlete, the 1,055th most popular biography from Russia and the 8th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 138 out of 3,059Before him are Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Thomas Curtis, Jürgen Schult, Lee Evans, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Lia Manoliu. After him are Volmari Iso-Hollo, Heike Drechsler, Vsevolod Bobrov, Charilaos Vasilakos, Gaston Roelants, and John Carlos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 231Before him are John Henry Schwarz, Amir Pnueli, Richie Havens, Stephen J. Cannell, Salvador Sadurní, and Aleksandar Shalamanov. After him are Daniel Schmid, Miriam Margolyes, Yevhen Marchuk, Andrea de Adamich, Prince William of Gloucester, and Robert McKee. Among people deceased in 2021, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 284Before him are Fayez Tarawneh, Orlando Martínez, Pavol Molnár, Dragan Pantelić, Lee Evans, and Aleksandar Shalamanov. After him are Benoît Sokal, Justo Tejada, Marc Ferro, Almudena Grandes, Jim Steinman, and Yevhen Marchuk.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 1,055 out of 3,262Before him are Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova (1878), Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878), Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (1895), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), Vladimir Makovsky (1846), and Svetlana Medvedeva (1965). After him are Elena Mukhina (1960), Stephen of Perm (1340), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), Vasily Golitsyn (1643), and Mikhail Prishvin (1873).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vyacheslav Vedenin ranks 8Before him are Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Valeriy Brumel (1942), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Irena Szewińska (1946), and Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930). After him are Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Vera Krepkina (1933), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), and Nina Ponomaryova (1929).