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Tamara Press

1937 - 2021

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Tamara Natanovna Press (10 May 1937 – 26 April 2021) was a Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962. Between 1959 and 1965, she set 11 world records: five in the shot put and six in the discus. Domestically, she held 16 national titles, nine in the shot put (1958–66) and seven in the discus (1960–66). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tamara Press is the 33rd most popular athlete (down from 22nd in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 165th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tamara Press ranks 33 out of 6,025. Before her are Luz Long, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Percy Williams, Viktor Saneyev, Felix Baumgartner, and Michael Johnson. After her are Ray Ewry, Dana Zátopková, Jonathan Edwards, Greg Bell, Ellery Harding Clark, and Javier Sotomayor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tamara Press ranks 89. Before her are Yılmaz Güney, Tom Simpson, Thomas Nagel, Valentin Pavlov, Yoshirō Mori, and Tamara Bunke. After her are Song Hye-rim, Maryse Condé, Dragoslav Šekularac, George Takei, Keizō Obuchi, and Ronald Venetiaan. Among people deceased in 2021, Tamara Press ranks 106. Before her are Kentaro Miura, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Cloris Leachman, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Jehan Sadat, and Norodom Ranariddh. After her are Hannu Mikkola, Sheldon Adelson, Dündar Ali Osman, Libuše Šafránková, Shirley Fry, and El Risitas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 197 out of 1,365. Before her are Mykola Lysenko (1842), Kirill Moskalenko (1902), Kunigunda of Halych (1245), Igor Belanov (1960), Batbayan (700), and Anatole Litvak (1902). After her are Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1582), Nikolai Tikhonov (1905), Valeriy Borzov (1949), Leonid Kogan (1924), and Yaropolk II of Kiev (1082).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Tamara Press ranks 1. After her are Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Irina Press (1939), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Galina Chistyakova (1962), Faina Melnik (1945), Inessa Kravets (1966), and Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904).

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