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Igor Malkov

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Igor Alekseyevich Malkov (Russian: И́горь Алексе́евич Малко́в; born 9 February 1965 in Pervouralsk, Soviet Union) is a former speedskater. Igor Malkov trained at VSS Trud in Sverdlovsk. Skating for the USSR, he became Olympic 10,000 m Champion at the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, only 0.05 seconds ahead of Tomas Gustafson, becoming the youngest male Olympic champion in the history of Olympic speed skating at an age of 19 years and 9 days. (The youngest female Olympic speedskater winner is American Anne Henning, who won the 500 m in 1972 at the age of 16.) Earlier at those Olympics, he had lost the 5,000 m race by only 0.02 seconds to Gustafson. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Malkov is the 3,080th most popular athlete (up from 3,450th in 2019), the 2,827th most popular biography from Russia (up from 3,033rd in 2019) and the 179th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Igor Malkov ranks 3,080 out of 6,025. Before him are Michael Hadschieff, Gal Fridman, Ilya Markov, Mark Todd, Niels van der Zwan, and Agostino Abbagnale. After him are Gunn Margit Andreassen, Darrell Pace, Ildikó Mincza-Nébald, Austra Skujytė, Zdzisław Hoffmann, and Richard Trautmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Igor Malkov ranks 752. Before him are Carlos Mayor, Nazia Hassan, Frank Bello, Andrew J. Feustel, Ilija Trojanow, and Günther Huber. After him are Hippolyt Kempf, Lynda Boyd, Leydy Pech, María Isabel Urrutia, Abdourahman Waberi, and Yuri Savichev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Malkov ranks 2,827 out of 3,761. Before him are Vyacheslav Voronin (1974), Alina Boz (1998), Ilya Markov (1972), Basta (1980), Ilia Averbukh (1973), and Olga Lyubimova (1980). After him are Timur Mutsurayev (1976), Denis Istomin (1986), Elena Bovina (1983), Andrey Prokofyev (1959), Evgeni Petrov (1978), and Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Igor Malkov ranks 179. Before him are Natalya Sadova (1972), Andreas Müller (null), Olena Kostevych (1985), Sergei Tchepikov (1967), Vyacheslav Voronin (1974), and Ilya Markov (1972). After him are Andrey Prokofyev (1959), Anna Biryukova (1967), Andrejus Zadneprovskis (1974), Inna Lasovskaya (1969), Mariya Lasitskene (1993), and Lilia Vaygina-Efremova (1977).

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