ATHLETE

Yuriy Sedykh

1955 - 2021

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Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh (Russian: Ю́рий Гео́ргиевич Седы́х, Ukrainian: Юрій Георгійович Сєдих) (11 June 1955 – 14 September 2021) was a track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1991 in the hammer throw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuriy Sedykh has received more than 278,629 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Yuriy Sedykh is the 58th most popular athlete (down from 18th in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 434th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.72

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 58 out of 6,025. Before him are Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Valeriy Brumel, Jim Hines, Betty Robinson, Walter Schröder, and Wilma Rudolph. After him are Platt Adams, Hans Woellke, Gabriela Andersen-Schiess, Irina Press, Ralph Boston, and Al Oerter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 96. Before him are Sirindhorn, Ron Johnson, Alessandro Altobelli, Mika Kaurismäki, Avram Grant, and Bruno Conti. After him are Debra Winger, Akira Nishino, Dominique Pinon, Jeff Daniels, Ángela Molina, and Matthias Jabs. Among people deceased in 2021, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 131. Before him are Marshall Sahlins, Hank Aaron, Alberto Grimaldi, Haya Harareet, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and James Levine. After him are Poul Schlüter, David Yonggi Cho, Dündar Ali Osman, Willy van der Kuijlen, Enrique Bolaños, and Nino Castelnuovo.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 683 out of 3,761. Before him are Ruslan Khasbulatov (1942), Viktor Medvedchuk (1954), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931), Viktor Hartmann (1834), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), and Marko Vovchok (1833). After him are Valery Bryusov (1873), Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Alexander Sokurov (1951), Lucien Olivier (1838), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), and Vera Weizmann (1881).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 3. Before him are Vasily Alekseyev (1942), and Valeriy Brumel (1942). After him are Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Vera Krepkina (1933), Irena Szewińska (1946), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Galina Zybina (1931), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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