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Igor Novikov

1929 - 2007

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Igor Aleksandrovich Novikov (Russian: Игорь Александрович Новиков, 19 October 1929 – 30 August 2007) was a Soviet modern pentathlete and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he won a gold medal in the team competition (together with Aleksandr Tarasov and Ivan Deriuhin. He won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and he competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won a gold medal in the team competition (together with Albert Mokeyev and Viktor Mineyev), and a silver medal in the individual competition. After retiring from competitions, Novikov worked as a modern pentathlon coach and administrator. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Novikov is the 1,281st most popular athlete (down from 838th in 2019), the 2,014th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,945th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Igor Novikov ranks 1,281 out of 6,025. Before him are José García, Walter Schröder, Ibrahim Shams, Frank Kugler, Kalevi Kotkas, and Carl von Essen. After him are Giovanni Invernizzi, Martin Fourcade, Frank Hussey, Walter Graf, Hans Berglund, and Anni Holdmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Igor Novikov ranks 420. Before him are Acker Bilk, Lode Wouters, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Daphne Hasenjäger, Michael D. Coe, and Gerry Anderson. After him are Saeed Jaffrey, Kiichirō Furukawa, Francisco Zuluaga, Jerry Hardin, Win Tin, and Chaim Potok. Among people deceased in 2007, Igor Novikov ranks 317. Before him are Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce M. Metzger, Laraine Day, Anita Roddick, Robert Goulet, and Tamás Gábor. After him are Franz Antel, Juan Valdivieso, Masao Takemoto, Gilbert Bozon, Ramón Marsal, and Frigyes Hidas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Novikov ranks 2,014 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuliya Borisova (1925), Giorgi Shengelaia (1937), Andriy Yarmolenko (1989), Vasily Andreyev (1861), José García (null), and Gennadi Sosonko (1943). After him are Alexander Kokorinov (1726), Andrei Smirnov (1941), Yelena Kondakova (1957), Sergey Tereshchenko (1951), Grigory Landsberg (1890), and Mikhail Suslin (1894).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Igor Novikov ranks 54. Before him are Vera Komisova (1953), Valeri Vasiliev (1949), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Yury Sharov (1939), Aleksandr Timoshinin (1948), and José García (null). After him are Lyudmila Kondratyeva (1958), Aleksandr Aksinin (1954), Nina Fyodorova (1947), German Sveshnikov (1937), Galina Gorokhova (1938), and Lyudmila Pinayeva (1936).

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