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Tatyana Shchelkanova

1937 - 2011

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Tatyana Shchelkanova (Russian: Татья́на Щелка́нова, 18 April 1937 – 24 November 2011) was a Soviet long jumper, sprinter and pentathlete who won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1964 Olympics. In 1961 she set a world record at 6.48 m and extended it to 6.53 m in 1962 to and 6.70 m in 1964. However, in the Olympic final she only managed 6.42 m, while the winner Mary Rand broke the world record at 6.76 m. Shchelkanova won two European titles in the long jump, in 1962 and 1966 (indoor). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tatyana Shchelkanova is the 532nd most popular athlete (up from 906th in 2019), the 1,471st most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,995th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tatyana Shchelkanova ranks 532 out of 6,025. Before her are František Pospíšil, Steve Anderson, Jānis Daliņš, František Janda-Suk, Thelma Hopkins, and Rune Larsson. After her are Eddie Hart, Yiannis Kouros, Natalya Lisovskaya, Norman Read, Alfons Dorfner, and Monika Zehrt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tatyana Shchelkanova ranks 307. Before her are Mirko Marjanović, Jaime Lerner, Jurek Becker, José Araquistáin, Ramsewak Shankar, and Jacques Barrot. After her are Coen Moulijn, Sally Kellerman, Hans Cieslarczyk, Mark Donohue, Marlene Schmidt, and Bobby Driscoll. Among people deceased in 2011, Tatyana Shchelkanova ranks 233. Before her are Andrea True, James Arness, Peter Gethin, Lilian Jackson Braun, Karl Aage Præst, and Iván Menczel. After her are Tatyana Lioznova, Coen Moulijn, Shammi Kapoor, M. F. Husain, Karen Khachaturian, and Theodore Roszak.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tatyana Shchelkanova ranks 1,471 out of 3,761. Before her are Elsa Brändström (1888), Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow (1530), Valentin Lebedev (1942), Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), Galina Kulakova (1942), and Vatslav Vorovsky (1871). After her are Olga Sanfirova (1917), Alexandre Volkoff (1885), Frol Kozlov (1908), Vasily Agapkin (1884), Nikolay Bauman (1873), and Sergey Chaplygin (1869).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Tatyana Shchelkanova ranks 29. Before her are Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Boris Melnikov (1938), Veikko Karvonen (1926), Alexander Ragulin (1941), and Anatoly Alyabyev (1951). After her are Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Maria Itkina (1932), Vladimir Melanin (1933), Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), and Leonid Spirin (1932).

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