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Veikko Karvonen

1926 - 2007

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Veikko Leo Karvonen (5 January 1926 – 1 August 2007) was a Finnish long-distance runner who mainly competed in the marathon. He won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics. At the 1954 European Championships he won the gold medal in the marathon and the following year won the Boston Marathon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Veikko Karvonen is the 485th most popular athlete (up from 508th in 2019), the 1,428th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,684th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Veikko Karvonen ranks 485 out of 6,025. Before him are Yevgeny Grishin, Grete Waitz, Christa Stubnick, Alice Brown, Boris Melnikov, and Gisela Birkemeyer. After him are Betty Robinson, Veikko Kankkonen, Jean Pickering, Rafer Johnson, Paavo Yrjölä, and Milan Nenadić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Veikko Karvonen ranks 280. Before him are Genrich Altshuller, Tadeusz Konwicki, Alfreda Markowska, Giancarlo Bergamini, José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, and Shigeru Kayano. After him are Lou Donaldson, Julio César Britos, Armand Penverne, José Alfredo Jiménez, Shinichi Hoshi, and Julie London. Among people deceased in 2007, Veikko Karvonen ranks 222. Before him are Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Hallgeir Brenden, Vlatko Pavletić, Ronald Speirs, Stuart Rosenberg, and Néstor Rossi. After him are Ian Richardson, Jan Wolkers, Yang Chuan-kwang, John Winter, Joachim Hansen, and Helmut Senekowitsch.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Veikko Karvonen ranks 1,428 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), Vladimir Filatov (1875), Boris Melnikov (1938), and Valentin Gaft (1935). After him are Serhii Plokhy (1957), Aleksey Krylov (1863), Olga Preobrajenska (1871), Tatyana Ovechkina (1950), Andrey Makarevich (1953), and Innokenty Annensky (1855).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Veikko Karvonen ranks 26. Before him are Renate Boy (1939), Aleksandra Chudina (1923), Olavi Mannonen (1930), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Yevgeny Grishin (1931), and Boris Melnikov (1938). After him are Alexander Ragulin (1941), Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), Tatyana Shchelkanova (1937), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), and Maria Itkina (1932).

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