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Vera Krepkina

1933 - 2023

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Vera Samuilovna Krepkina (later Kalashnikova, Russian: Вера Самуиловна Крепкина (Калашникова); 15 April 1933 – 25 April 2023) was a Soviet-Ukrainian track and field athlete. She competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952, 1956, and 1960 Olympics. At all these Olympics she finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay and was eliminated in the heats of the 100 m sprint. In 1960, she also took part in the long jump and won a surprise gold medal with an Olympic record of 6.37 m, ahead of the defending champion Elżbieta Krzesińska and the world record holder Hildrun Claus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vera Krepkina is the 165th most popular athlete (down from 78th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 712th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vera Krepkina ranks 165 out of 6,025. Before her are Vladimír Dzurilla, Kipchoge Keino, Barbara Jones, Ilmari Salminen, Nadezhda Olizarenko, and Nándor Dáni. After her are Karl Röderer, Thomas Hicks, Ethel Smith, Joseph Guillemot, Jim Bausch, and Lia Manoliu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Vera Krepkina ranks 183. Before her are Ron Wyatt, Humberto Maschio, Saleh Al-Fawzan, Stuart Roosa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and James Rosenquist. After her are Abel Pacheco, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Bobby Smith, Hossein Nasr, and Mohammad-Javad Bahonar. Among people deceased in 2023, Vera Krepkina ranks 164. Before her are Walter Cunningham, Yuri Manin, María Kodama, Petar Nadoveza, Luboš Kohoutek, and Ken Block. After her are Josep Maria Fusté, Craig Brown, Richard Roundtree, Martin Walser, Amitai Etzioni, and Julian Sands.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Krepkina ranks 892 out of 3,761. Before her are Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953), Igor Ansoff (1918), Léonide Massine (1896), Yerofey Khabarov (1603), Yury Romanenko (1944), and Prince Igor Constantinovich of Russia (1894). After her are Vitaly Abalakov (1906), Dmitry Laptev (1701), Vladimir Stasov (1824), Yuri Artyukhin (1930), Hermann von Struve (1854), and Konstantin Leontiev (1831).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vera Krepkina ranks 8. Before her are Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Valeriy Brumel (1942), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), and Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953). After her are Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), and Galina Zybina (1931).

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