ATHLETE

Nadezhda Tkachenko

1948 - Today

Photo of Nadezhda Tkachenko

Icon of person Nadezhda Tkachenko

Nadiya Volodymyrivna Tkachenko (Ukrainian: Надія Володимирівна Ткаченко) or Nadezhda Vladimirovna Tkachenko (Russian: Надежда Владимировна Ткаченко) (born 19 September 1948) is a Ukrainian former pentathlete who won gold at the 1980 Olympics. She was born in Kremenchuk, then in the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union, and took up pentathlon aged 18 training at the Vanguard Voluntary Sports Societies of the Soviet Union in Donetsk Oblast. She came second in pentathlon in the Soviet championships of 1971 and 1972, and competed three times for the Soviet Union at the Olympics. She set her first world record (4839 points) winning the 1977 European Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nadezhda Tkachenko is the 615th most popular athlete (up from 1,355th in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 899th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Nadezhda Tkachenko by language

Loading...

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nadezhda Tkachenko ranks 615 out of 6,025. Before her are Alice Coachman, Henri Chammartin, George Larner, Mate Trojanović, Tranquilo Cappozzo, and Luise Krüger. After her are Hugo Strauß, Veli Saarinen, Yevhen Arzhanov, Aldo Aureggi, Maria Itkina, and George Horine.

Most Popular Athletes in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Nadezhda Tkachenko ranks 406. Before her are Martin Birch, Richard Simmons, Otto Waalkes, Margaret Weis, Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan, and Benny Morris. After her are Gary Thain, Valeri Brainin, Yevhen Arzhanov, Akira Emoto, Mykola Avilov, and Philip Jackson.

Others Born in 1948

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nadezhda Tkachenko ranks 650 out of 1,365. Before her are Olena Chekan (1946), Oleksandr Murashko (1875), Nikolay Shchors (1895), Polina Osipenko (1907), Vasyl Stefanyk (1871), and Volodymyr Groysman (1978). After her are Ivan Martos (1754), Sergey Kozlov (1963), Emma Andijewska (1931), Ostap Vyshnya (1889), Aleksander Ford (1908), and Shura Cherkassky (1909).

Others born in Ukraine

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Nadezhda Tkachenko ranks 14. Before her are Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Faina Melnik (1945), Inessa Kravets (1966), Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904), and Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938). After her are Yevhen Arzhanov (1948), Lidiya Alfeyeva (1946), Mykola Avilov (1948), Vladimír Syrovátka (1908), Mária Gulácsy (1941), and Wiesław Maniak (1938).

Ukrainian born Athletes

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous