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Larisa Latynina

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Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (Russian: Лариса Семёновна Латынина, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and four team medals for the Soviet Union. She holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals by a female gymnast with nine. Her total of 18 Olympic medals was a record for 48 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Larisa Latynina is the 3rd most popular gymnast (down from 2nd in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 78th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Gymnast.

Larisa Latynina is most famous for being the first female gymnast to win 18 medals at the Olympics.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Larisa Latynina ranks 3 out of 370. Before her are Nadia Comăneci, and Ágnes Keleti. After her are Olga Korbut, Věra Čáslavská, Carl Schuhmann, Akinori Nakayama, Sawao Kato, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Louis Zutter, and Leon Štukelj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Larisa Latynina ranks 37. Before her are Paul Ekman, Pierre Richard, Ulrike Meinhof, Paco Rabanne, Kenny Baker, and Jacques Anquetil. After her are Paul Cohen, Empress Michiko, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Alexei Leonov, Bengt I. Samuelsson, and Richard Meier.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Larisa Latynina ranks 80 out of 1,365. Before her are Sonia Delaunay (1885), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Mila Kunis (1983), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Sergey Bubka (1963), and Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886). After her are Andrey Vyshinsky (1883), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Karol Szymanowski (1882), and Bruno Schulz (1892).

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Among GYMNASTS In Ukraine

Among gymnasts born in Ukraine, Larisa Latynina ranks 1. After her are Viktor Chukarin (1921), Tatiana Gutsu (1976), Anna Bessonova (1984), Tatiana Lysenko (1975), Hrihoriy Misyutin (1970), Anastasia Bliznyuk (1994), Oleg Vernyayev (1993), Valeriy Honcharov (1977), Igor Radivilov (1992), Artem Dolgopyat (1997), and Illia Kovtun (2003).

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