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Tamara Tyshkevich

1931 - 1997

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Tamara Andreevna Tyshkevich (Belarusian: Тамара Андрэеўна Тышкевіч, Russian: Тамара Андреевна Тышкевич; 31 March 1931 – 27 December 1997) was a Soviet shot putter. She won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 and placed fourth in 1952, losing to her long-term rival Galina Zybina. At the European championships she won a bronze medal in 1954 and a silver in 1958. Tyshkevich was born in Belarus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tamara Tyshkevich is the 519th most popular athlete (down from 372nd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 130th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tamara Tyshkevich ranks 519 out of 6,025. Before her are Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Gustavo Marzi, Armas Toivonen, John Winter, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Alexander Ragulin. After her are Imre Polyák, Anatoly Alyabyev, Kjell Bäckman, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Arvo Askola, and William Gilmore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Tamara Tyshkevich ranks 306. Before her are Ruy Guerra, Gisela Birkemeyer, Madeleine Berthod, Dimitar Dobrev, Gene Wolfe, and Edith Bruck. After her are Corinne Marchand, Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Vaino Väljas, Maria Gusakova, Norman Read, and Olja Ivanjicki. Among people deceased in 1997, Tamara Tyshkevich ranks 180. Before her are Myrtle Bachelder, Dulce María Loynaz, Sándor Végh, Jurek Becker, Shinichi Hoshi, and Jarl Kulle. After her are Erich Eliskases, Agnieszka Osiecka, Martin Kippenberger, Brian Connolly, Daniil Shafran, and Baltazar.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Tamara Tyshkevich ranks 135 out of 368. Before her are Bryachislav of Polotsk (997), Jan Piotr Sapieha (1569), Chaim Kanievsky (1928), Galina Lukashenko (1955), Piotr Jaroszewicz (1909), and Moisei Ginzburg (1892). After her are Sergei Loznitsa (1964), Sergei Sidorsky (1954), Pola Raksa (1941), Yisrael Meir Kagan (1838), Vasily Rudenkov (1931), and Roman Golovchenko (1973).

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Among ATHLETES In Belarus

Among athletes born in Belarus, Tamara Tyshkevich ranks 2. Before her are Romuald Klim (1933). After her are Vasily Rudenkov (1931), Nikolai Gorbachev (1948), Leonid Taranenko (1956), Darya Domracheva (1986), Rita Achkina (1938), Iryna Yatchenko (1965), Nadzeya Ostapchuk (1980), Andrei Mikhnevich (1976), Igor Astapkovich (1963), and Aleksandr Kurlovich (1961).

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