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Oleg Goncharenko

1931 - 1986

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Oleg Georgievich Goncharenko (Russian: Олег Георгиевич Гончаренко, Ukrainian: Олег Георгійович Гончаренко) (18 August 1931 – 16 December 1986), Distinguished Master of Sports of the USSR, was the first male Soviet speed skater to become World Allround Champion. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Oleg Goncharenko made his international debut in 1953 and promptly became World Allround Champion. He would win two more World Allround Championships after that, as well as two European Allround Championships. In 1958, he won the "triple", becoming World, European, and Soviet Allround Champion. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oleg Goncharenko is the 58th most popular skater (up from 69th in 2019), the 707th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 790th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 58 out of 483. Before him are Andrée Brunet, Ede Király, Ken Henry, Alexia Bryn, Trixi Schuba, and Göran Claeson. After him are Helga Haase, Otto Kaiser, Richard Johansson, Jonny Nilsson, Boris Shilkov, and Odd Lundberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 361. Before him are Gordon Willis, Adrienne Corri, John Baldessari, Anatoli Ilyin, Jean-Jacques Honorat, and Mike Parkes. After him are Redha Malek, Malcolm Browne, Diana Dors, Denise Scott Brown, Peter Kirby, and Yves Dreyfus. Among people deceased in 1986, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 197. Before him are Eino Leino, Vilmos Kohut, Herbert Runge, Noboru Terada, Aleksei Arbuzov, and John D. MacDonald. After him are Reinhold Münzenberg, Jean Cassou, Bruno Mora, André Tassin, Sulo Bärlund, and Volodymyr Pravyk.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 707 out of 1,365. Before him are Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879), Sviatoslav III of Kiev (null), Denis Pushilin (1981), Dmitry Polyansky (1917), Weegee (1899), and Vasyl Barvinsky (1888). After him are Yevhen Stankovych (1942), Michael Levytsky (1774), Arkhip Lyulka (1908), Dmytro Pavlychko (1929), Anatoly Artsebarsky (1956), and Valentina Rastvorova (1933).

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Among SKATERS In Ukraine

Among skaters born in Ukraine, Oleg Goncharenko ranks 1. After him are Tatiana Navka (1975), Oksana Baiul (1977), Viktor Petrenko (1969), Oksana Grishuk (1974), Artur Dmitriev (1968), Aljona Savchenko (1984), Evgeni Platov (1967), Tatiana Volosozhar (1986), and Ruslan Honcharov (1973).

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