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Viorica Viscopoleanu

1939 - Today

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Viorica Viscopoleanu (née Belmega, born 8 August 1939) is a retired Romanian long jumper athlete. She competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1968, setting a new world record. At the European championships she won a silver medal outdoors in 1969 and two medals indoors, in 1970 (gold) and 1971 (bronze). After retiring from competitions she worked as a coach at her club Steaua București. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Viorica Viscopoleanu is the 260th most popular athlete (down from 244th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 524th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Viorica Viscopoleanu ranks 260 out of 6,025Before her are Adolfo Consolini, Vladimir Kuts, Waldemar Cierpinski, Roger Bannister, Harold Abrahams, and Gretel Bergmann. After her are Silvio Cator, Nina Ponomaryova, Bill Roberts, August Nilsson, Galina Chistyakova, and Ernesto Ambrosini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Viorica Viscopoleanu ranks 229Before her are Zeng Qinghong, A. R. Penck, Eugenio Dal Corso, Miroslav Cerar, Viktor Sadovnichiy, and John Sculley. After her are Breyten Breytenbach, Branko Kostić, John Badham, Judy Collins, Susannah York, and Concha Velasco.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Viorica Viscopoleanu ranks 453 out of 1,365Before her are Roman Rudenko (1907), Alexander Granach (1890), Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895), Iryna Melnykova (1918), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), and Andrey Razumovsky (1752). After her are Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Janina Lewandowska (1908), Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Joseph Schmidt (1904), Les Kurbas (1887), and Galina Chistyakova (1962).

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Viorica Viscopoleanu ranks 8Before her are Volodymyr Holubnychy (1936), Irina Press (1939), Anatoliy Bondarchuk (1940), Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (1938), Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), and Vladimir Kuts (1927). After her are Galina Chistyakova (1962), Faina Melnik (1945), Inessa Kravets (1966), Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), and Nadezhda Tkachenko (1948).