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Pyotr Bolotnikov

1930 - 2013

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Pyotr Grigoryevich Bolotnikov (Russian: Пётр Григо́рьевич Боло́тников; 8 March 1930 – 20 December 2013) was a Soviet Track and field athlete who competed mainly in long-distance running events. He was the winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Born in Zinovkino, Krasnoslobodsky District, Mordovian ASSR (now the Republic of Mordovia), Bolotnikov started athletics only at age twenty, when he joined the Soviet Army. He trained at VSS Spartak, coached by Grigory Nikiforov. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pyotr Bolotnikov is the 111th most popular athlete (up from 123rd in 2019), the 755th most popular biography from Russia (up from 922nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 111 out of 6,025. Before him are Harry Babcock, John Taylor, Irina Press, Eric Liddell, Tommie Smith, and Ken Carpenter. After him are Elvīra Ozoliņa, Joe Rantz, Frank Zane, Rudolf Bauer, Fred Newhouse, and John Rimmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 175. Before him are Harold Bloom, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Bo Widerberg, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, and Sergiu Nicolaescu. After him are Katherine Jackson, Julián Herranz Casado, Leslie Manigat, Chus Lampreave, Károly Grósz, and Todor Veselinović. Among people deceased in 2013, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 132. Before him are Sergei Belov, Alvin Lee, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti, Sergiu Nicolaescu, and Harry Reems. After him are Karen Black, Jacques Vergès, Colin Wilson, Bernadette Lafont, Jim Kelly, and Hjalmar Andersen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 755 out of 3,761. Before him are Vasily Tatishchev (1686), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (1886), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), and Tatiana Samoilova (1934). After him are Yevgeny Dragunov (1920), Ivan Vinogradov (1891), Boris Gromov (1943), Talabuga (1300), Yury Grigorovich (1927), and Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Pyotr Bolotnikov ranks 5. Before him are Irena Szewińska (1946), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Vasily Alekseyev (1942), and Valeriy Brumel (1942). After him are Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953), Vera Krepkina (1933), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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