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Sylvi Saimo

1914 - 2004

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Sylvi Riitta Saimo (née Sikiö, 12 November 1914 – 12 March 2004) was a Finnish sprint canoeist and politician. She was the first female Finnish Olympic Champion at the Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal in K-1 500 m at the 1952 Summer Olympics. She also competed in cross-country skiing, athletics and orienteering. She was a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1966 to 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sylvi Saimo is the 1,488th most popular athlete (down from 1,189th in 2019), the 2,138th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,160th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Sylvi Saimo ranks 1,488 out of 6,025. Before her are Oskar Olsen, William Hogenson, Arno Bieberstein, Jutta Heine, Finn Haunstoft, and Jiří Lanský. After her are Károly Takács, Tatyana Prorochenko, Martina Hellmann, Miklós Ambrus, Josef Kloimstein, and Takashi Ishimoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Sylvi Saimo ranks 351. Before her are Hamo Sahyan, Grete Mostny, Robert Alda, Kenneth More, Mircea David, and Max Stiepl. After her are Astrid Henning-Jensen, Geoffrey Unsworth, Élie Bayol, Mauk Weber, Hans Theilig, and Franz Bistricky. Among people deceased in 2004, Sylvi Saimo ranks 271. Before her are Germano de Figueiredo, Ugo Ferrante, Jiří Weiss, David Reimer, Zurab Sakandelidze, and Isabel Sanford. After her are Victor Argo, Yasutomi Nishizuka, Alexey Korneyev, Robert Pastorelli, Custódio Pinto, and Robert Bacher.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sylvi Saimo ranks 2,138 out of 3,761. Before her are Gregory Ratoff (1897), Vladimir Andreyev (1930), Nina Otkalenko (1928), Denis Cheryshev (1990), Fyodor Volkov (1729), and Zyzz (1989). After her are Aleksandr Tkachyov (1957), Pavel Shternberg (1865), Mikhail Gnessin (1883), Yuri Semin (1947), Mark Rakita (1938), and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky (1900).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Sylvi Saimo ranks 68. Before her are Vladimir Kiselyov (1957), Boris Stenin (1935), Valentin Gavrilov (1946), Viktor Mamatov (1937), Vitold Kreyer (1932), and Nina Otkalenko (1928). After her are Mark Rakita (1938), Yuriy Lituyev (1925), Antonina Seredina (1929), Vladimir Belousov (1946), Vladimir Nevzorov (1952), and Maria Golubnichaya (1924).

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