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Helena Pilejczyk

1931 - 2023

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Helena Pilejczyk (née Majcher; 1 April 1931 – 12 November 2023) was a Polish speed skater. Pilejczyk was the Olympic bronze medal winner in the 1,500 m in Squaw Valley (1960). Her first appearance at the Polish national Championships speed skating was in 1953, while the last time she could be seen skating internationally was during the masters games of 2002, where she competed in the category for female skaters 70 years and above. She achieved 40 Polish skating records and won 37 Polish titles for distance, allround and relay race events. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helena Pilejczyk is the 151st most popular skater (down from 31st in 2019), the 1,259th most popular biography from Poland (down from 824th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Helena Pilejczyk ranks 151 out of 483. Before her are Dorothy Hamill, Johann Olav Koss, Anett Pötzsch, Carolina Kostner, Igor Zhelezovski, and Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich. After her are Jan Hoffmann, Petra Burka, Bjørg Eva Jensen, Natalia Bestemianova, Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann, and Claudia Pechstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Helena Pilejczyk ranks 560. Before her are Martin Milner, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Anne Heywood, Robert Fowler, Zoltán Huszárik, and Bassano Staffieri. After her are Jerry Herman, Georgi Vladimov, Romila Thapar, Ernie Banks, Werner Israel, and Bruce Halford. Among people deceased in 2023, Helena Pilejczyk ranks 508. Before her are Patricia Janečková, Basil van Rooyen, Sylvia Syms, Vahidin Musemić, Peter-Michael Kolbe, and Richard Moll. After her are Bert I. Gordon, Dimitrie Popescu, Carole Cook, Nigel Lawson, Shiro Hashizume, and Agneta Andersson.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Helena Pilejczyk ranks 1,259 out of 1,694. Before her are Roman Totenberg (1911), Jacek Bąk (1973), Janusz Lewandowski (1951), Martin Max (1968), Ryszard Parulski (1938), and Zbigniew Jaremski (1949). After her are Zbigniew Rau (1955), Abel Korzeniowski (1972), Michał Żebrowski (1972), Anna Komorowska (1953), Andrzej Stasiuk (1960), and Marek Kusto (1954).

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Among SKATERS In Poland

Among skaters born in Poland, Helena Pilejczyk ranks 2. Before her are Helga Haase (1934). After her are Uwe-Jens Mey (1963), Zbigniew Bródka (1984), Katarzyna Bachleda-Curuś (1980), Luiza Złotkowska (1986), and Katarzyna Woźniak (1989).

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