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Lidiya Skoblikova

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Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova (Russian: Лидия Павловна Скобликова; born 8 March 1939) is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Winter Olympic Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, a record she shares with Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Winter Olympics and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lidiya Skoblikova is the 24th most popular skater (up from 36th in 2019), the 1,163rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,482nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 24 out of 483. Before her are Dick Button, Donald Jackson, Oleg Protopopov, Karol Divín, Ludowika Jakobsson, and Roald Aas. After her are Helene Engelmann, Suzanne Morrow Francis, Heinrich Burger, Ard Schenk, Robert Paul, and Willy Böckl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 250. Before her are James Mancham, Aleksandër Meksi, Joe Clark, Dean Corll, R. Budd Dwyer, and Sandro Salvadore. After her are Pat Crerand, Valery Rozhdestvensky, Bobby Hull, Telesphore Toppo, Vladimír Weiss, and Valery Voronin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 1,163 out of 3,761. Before her are Vera Alentova (1942), Elvira Nabiullina (1963), Alexey Maresyev (1916), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), and Alexander Miasnikian (1886). After her are Agniya Barto (1906), Grigoriy Myasoyedov (1834), Serhiy Tkach (1952), Oleg Deripaska (1968), Johannes Virolainen (1914), and Alexey Sudayev (1912).

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Among SKATERS In Russia

Among skaters born in Russia, Lidiya Skoblikova ranks 2. Before her are Oleg Protopopov (1932). After her are Ludmila Belousova (1935), Boris Shilkov (1927), Evgeni Plushenko (1982), Klara Guseva (1937), Viktor Kosichkin (1938), Nikolai Panin (1872), Sergei Grinkov (1967), Alexei Ulanov (1947), Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev (1952), and Aleksandr Gorshkov (1946).

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