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Veniamin Soldatenko

1939 - 2023

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Veniamin Vasilievich Soldatenko (Russian: Вениамин Васильевич Солдатенко, 4 January 1939 – 15 July 2023) was a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk. He acquired Kazakhstani citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Soldatenko took up athletics in 1962 and became a member of the USSR National Team in 1967. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Veniamin Soldatenko is the 760th most popular athlete (down from 201st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 40th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Kazakhstani Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Veniamin Soldatenko ranks 760 out of 6,025. Before him are Tom Sandberg, Yngvar Bryn, René Barbier, Édouard Artigas, Charles Austin, and John Miller. After him are Christoph Höhne, Henri Bouckaert, Giorgio Bocchino, Tatyana Anisimova, Jiří Skobla, and Vladimír Syrovátka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Veniamin Soldatenko ranks 372. Before him are István Nagy, Brigitte Fassbaender, Ron Atkinson, Franjo Gregurić, Ivar Jacobson, and Michele Brown. After him are Ernesto Castano, Hildrun Laufer-Claus, Vivi Bach, David Frost, Osvaldo Hurtado, and László Kovács. Among people deceased in 2023, Veniamin Soldatenko ranks 339. Before him are Erkin Koray, Bill Richardson, Lasse Berghagen, Jacques Gaillot, Dmytro Pavlychko, and Fiona Graham. After him are Shozo Sasahara, Akgün Kaçmaz, Gordon Lightfoot, Vera T. Sós, Mirko Novosel, and Endel Tulving.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Veniamin Soldatenko ranks 53 out of 193. Before him are Anatoly Khrapaty (1962), Akhmed Zakayev (1959), Dariga Nazarbayeva (1963), Oleg Bryjak (1960), Kulyash Baiseitova (1912), and Alexander Volkov (1891). After him are Nurlan Balgimbayev (1947), Vladimir Smirnov (1964), Alzhan Zharmukhamedov (1944), Daniyal Akhmetov (1954), Timur Bekmambetov (1961), and Alexander Kazantsev (1906).

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Among ATHLETES In Kazakhstan

Among athletes born in Kazakhstan, Veniamin Soldatenko ranks 2. Before him are Anatoly Khrapaty (1962). After him are David Rigert (1947), Olga Shishigina (1968), Vladimir Muravyov (1959), Grigoriy Yegorov (1967), Liu Yang (null), Olga Rypakova (1984), Dmitriy Karpov (1981), Yermakhan Ibraimov (1972), Tatyana Lesovaya (1956), and Vitaliy Savin (1966).

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