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Oleg Protopopov

1932 - 2023

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Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov (Russian: Оле́г Алексе́евич Протопо́пов; 16 July 1932 – 31 October 2023) was a Russian pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his wife Ludmila Belousova he was a two-time Olympic champion (1964, 1968) and four-time World champion (1965–1968). In 1979, the pair defected to Switzerland and became Swiss citizens in 1995. They continued to skate at ice shows and exhibitions until their seventies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oleg Protopopov is the 20th most popular skater (down from 3rd in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from Russia (down from 499th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Oleg Protopopov ranks 20 out of 483. Before him are Åke Seyffarth, Madge Syers, Fred Anton Maier, Tonya Harding, Dick Button, and Donald Jackson. After him are Karol Divín, Ludowika Jakobsson, Roald Aas, Lidiya Skoblikova, Helene Engelmann, and Suzanne Morrow Francis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Oleg Protopopov ranks 231. Before him are Dean Smith, Yakir Aharonov, Enzo Mari, Jean Stablinski, Tommy Taylor, and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. After him are Dana Scott, Carlos Borges, Larry Evans, Ivor Richard, Saye Zerbo, and Atef Ebeid. Among people deceased in 2023, Oleg Protopopov ranks 223. Before him are Ama Ata Aidoo, Romualdo Arppi Filho, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Murat Karayılan, Yacouba Sawadogo, and Jim Brown. After him are Alma Adamkienė, Kenneth Anger, Carmen Sevilla, Bobby Hull, Telesphore Toppo, and Joss Ackland.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Oleg Protopopov ranks 1,145 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Stürmer (1848), Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Alexander Alyabyev (1787), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), and Alexander Yakovlev (1923). After him are Konstantin Novoselov (1974), Olga Baclanova (1893), Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia (1825), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Natalia Gutman (1942), and Sergei Shtemenko (1907).

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Among SKATERS In Russia

Among skaters born in Russia, Oleg Protopopov ranks 1. After him are Lidiya Skoblikova (1939), 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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