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Leonid Shcherbakov

1927 - 2004

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Leonid Mikhailovich Shcherbakov (Russian: Леонид Михайлович Щербаков, (7 April 1927 – 19 May 2004) was a Russian retired triple jumper who won a silver medal at the 1952 Olympics. He broke the world record in 1953 and won the European title in 1950 and 1954. Domestically he won eight consecutive Soviet titles in 1949–56. After retiring from competitions, Shcherbakov worked at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, and later coached triple jumpers in Algeria and Cuba. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leonid Shcherbakov is the 1,858th most popular athlete (down from 1,432nd in 2024), the 2,317th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,276th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Leonid Shcherbakov ranks 1,858 out of 6,025. Before him are Imrich Bugár, Andrey Abduvaliyev, Chris Brown, Delfo Cabrera, Georg de Laval, and Endre Tilli. After him are Norman Taber, Arthur Wint, Bohumil Modrý, Tommy Kono, Paul Nihill, and Frank Schaffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Leonid Shcherbakov ranks 424. Before him are Alfons Van Brandt, Raymond Leppard, Hugo Budinger, François Nourissier, James Broderick, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. After him are Red Mitchell, Yury Kazakov, Jiří Pešek, Ambrus Nagy, Hugo Dollheiser, and Beatrice Ohanessian. Among people deceased in 2004, Leonid Shcherbakov ranks 295. Before him are Iris Chang, Emlyn Hughes, Fernando Campos, Frances Dee, Eric Douglas, and Bill Nicholson. After him are Lea De Mae, Bernice Rubens, Eleanor Holm, Jacek Kaczmarski, Bjarne Andersson, and Charles Dumas.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Leonid Shcherbakov ranks 2,317 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1971), Aleksandr Lapin (1964), Vasily Tsibliyev (1954), Leonid Mikhelson (1955), Andrey Abduvaliyev (1966), and Vasily Goncharov (1861). After him are Aleksandr Baluev (1958), Vladimir Tendryakov (1923), Yury Kazakov (1927), Nikolai Manoshin (1938), Dmitri Prigov (1940), and Viktor Zubkov (1937).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Leonid Shcherbakov ranks 91. Before him are Tamara Manina (1934), Lyudmila Titova (1946), Tatyana Talysheva (1937), Valentina Yegorova (1964), Ardalion Ignatyev (1930), and Andrey Abduvaliyev (1966). After him are Oleg Golovanov (1934), Vyacheslav Lemeshev (1952), Yelena Petushkova (1940), Lyudmila Andonova (1960), Valery Muratov (1946), and Natalya Sokolova (1949).

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