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Taisia Chenchik

1936 - 2013

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Taisiya Filipivna Chenchik (Russian: Таисия Филипповна Ченчик; 30 January 1936 – 19 November 2013) was a Soviet high jumper. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished fifth and third, respectively. At the European championships she won a gold medal in 1966 and a silver in 1958. Chenchik also won the high jump event at the 1963 Universiade, 1967 European Indoor Championships, USSR-USA dual meets (1958–59, 1962–63, 1965) and Soviet championships (1957–59 and 1962). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Taisia Chenchik is the 1,410th most popular athlete (up from 1,712th in 2019), the 857th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 945th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Taisia Chenchik ranks 1,410 out of 6,025Before her are Bertalan Papp, Päivi Meriluoto, Andreas Cervin, Ragnar Malm, William Fields, and Gunhild Hoffmeister. After her are Guido Balzarini, Wang Yi, Dorothea Wierer, Jack Cameron, Ebbe Parsner, and Rodrigo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Taisia Chenchik ranks 450Before her are Ádám Bodor, Paula Marosi, Sissy Schwarz, Andrzej Zieliński, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, and Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz. After her are Manfred Stolpe, Lane Smith, Gerald Guralnik, Dmitri Anosov, Zhong Nanshan, and Fleur Mellor. Among people deceased in 2013, Taisia Chenchik ranks 386Before her are Josef Němec, Regina Bianchi, Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Amar Bose, Stan Musial, and Costică Ștefănescu. After her are Joseph Paul Franklin, Chico Hamilton, Ebbe Parsner, Ronnie Ray Smith, Chrissy Amphlett, and Gerard Cieślik.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Taisia Chenchik ranks 857 out of 1,365Before her are Volodymyr Troshkin (1947), Igor Dobrovolski (1967), Vadim Perelman (1963), Oleksandr Sydorenko (1960), Serhiy Zhadan (1974), and Jan Parandowski (1895). After her are Volodymyr Dakhno (1932), Oleksiy Honcharuk (1984), Viktor Chanov (1959), Ivan Borkovský (1897), Viktor Matviyenko (1948), and Krystyna Feldman (1916).

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Taisia Chenchik ranks 22Before her are Lidiya Alfeyeva (1946), Mykola Avilov (1948), Vladimír Syrovátka (1908), Mária Gulácsy (1941), Wiesław Maniak (1938), and Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952). After her are Leonid Bartenyev (1933), Ihor Rybak (1934), Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), Irina Kirichenko (1937), Nina Dumbadze (1919), and John Kelly (null).