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Yrjö Nikkanen

1914 - 1985

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Jouko Yrjö Nikkanen (31 December 1914 – 18 November 1985) was a Finnish javelin thrower, who won a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. His best throw of 70.77 meters was only one meter behind that of the gold medalist Gerhard Stöck, and just five centimeters ahead that of Kalervo Toivonen. On 25 August 1938, Nikkanen set a world record at 77.87 meters; less than two months later, on 16 October 1938, he had improved his record to 78.70 m. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yrjö Nikkanen has received more than 13,674 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Yrjö Nikkanen is the 533rd most popular athlete (down from 294th in 2019), the 1,731st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,431st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 533 out of 6,025. Before him are Jaroslav Holík, Frank Irons, Giancarlo Bergamini, Lee Barnes, Cornelius Warmerdam, and Józef Szmidt. After him are Gunder Hägg, Luigi Carpaneda, Ivan Gubijan, Teresa Ciepły, Paul Anderson, and Olav Sunde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 267. Before him are Hugh Trevor-Roper, David Wayne, Karel Kolský, Mary Carlisle, Manlio Di Rosa, and Carl Scarborough. After him are BP Koirala, Julián Marías, Giuseppe Caprio, Fumio Hayasaka, Eddie Chapman, and Jeff Corey. Among people deceased in 1985, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 174. Before him are Natalio Perinetti, Carlos Spadaro, Matt Monro, Forbes Burnham, Taylor Caldwell, and Roger Sessions. After him are Masten Gregory, Olav Sunde, George Murdock, Julie Vlasto, George London, and Ruth Orkin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 1,731 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Anofriyev (1930), Vsevolod of Pskov (null), Alexey Miller (1962), Augusts Voss (1919), Alexander Belov (1951), and Evgraf Fedorov (1853). After him are Alexander Fersman (1883), Nikolai Tikhonov (1896), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Nikolay Burdenko (1876), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 32. Before him are Irina Privalova (1968), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Veikko Karvonen (1926), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938). After him are Yelena Gorchakova (1933), Vasili Kuznetsov (1932), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), Valeri Popenchenko (1937), Leonid Spirin (1932), and Anatoly Mikhaylov (1936).

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