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Yevhen Arzhanov

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Yevhen Oleksandrovych Arzhanov (Ukrainian: Євген Олександрович Аржанов, born 9 February 1948) is a Ukrainian former middle-distance runner who won a silver medal in the 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.Arzhanov was a keen basketball and football player, and took up athletics only in 1965, yet by 1968 he was selected for the Soviet national team. At the 1968 Olympics, he reached the semifinals, and next year finished fourth at the 1969 European Championships. He won gold medals at the 1970 European Indoor Championships with a time of 1:51.0, 1971 European Indoor Championships (1:48.7), 1971 European Championships (1:45.6) and 1973 Summer Universiade (1:46.9).At the 1972 Olympics Arzhanov led the final, but was narrowly overtaken in the last meters by Dave Wottle, who finished in the same time (1:45.9).After retiring from competitions, Arzhanov worked as athletics commentator with Ukrainian national television and radio stations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yevhen Arzhanov has received more than 22,753 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yevhen Arzhanov is the 673rd most popular athlete (up from 754th in 2019), the 688th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 638th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yevhen Arzhanov ranks 673 out of 3,059Before her are Adalberts Bubenko, Glenn Hardin, Yelena Gorchakova, Aleksandr Baryshnikov, Pino Dordoni, and Gunder Hägg. After her are Hiroshi Suzuki, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Hussein Ahmed Salah, Yurik Vardanyan, Adolf Wiklund, and Walter Bathe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Yevhen Arzhanov ranks 446Before her are Susanna Kaysen, Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Sgt. Slaughter, Charles Maung Bo, Aleksandr Baryshnikov, and Lindsay Crouse. After her are Terry Bradshaw, Gudrun Schyman, Jonathan Sacks, John Gray, Franciszek Smuda, and Big John Studd.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yevhen Arzhanov ranks 688 out of 1,083Before her are Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (1975), Gregory Breit (1899), Eduard Gufeld (1936), Volodymyr Bezsonov (1958), Sergei Sviatchenko (1952), and Boris Lavrenyov (1891). After her are Henry Lehrman (1886), Hennadiy Kernes (1959), Rose Friedman (1910), Ariel Durant (1898), Sviatoslav Shevchuk (1970), and Milena Rudnytska (1892).

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Yevhen Arzhanov ranks 18Before her are Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), Mykola Avilov (1948), Nina Dumbadze (1919), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), and Irina Kirichenko (1937). After her are Vladimír Syrovátka (1908), Vladimir Yashchenko (1959), Nadezhda Tkachenko (1948), Ihor Rybak (1934), Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904), and Tatyana Prorochenko (1952).