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Yrjö Nikkanen

1914 - 1985

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Jouko Yrjö Nikkanen (31 December 1914 – 18 November 1985) was a Finnish javelin thrower, who won a silver medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics. His best throw of 70.77 meters was only one meter behind that of the gold medalist Gerhard Stöck, and just five centimeters ahead that of Kalervo Toivonen. On 25 August 1938, Nikkanen set a world record at 77.87 meters; less than two months later, on 16 October 1938, he had improved his record to 78.70 m. Nikkanen's record was bettered only on 8 August 1953 by Bud Held. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yrjö Nikkanen is the 669th most popular athlete (down from 558th in 2019), the 1,620th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,731st in 2019) and the 34th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 669 out of 6,025. Before him are Henri Deloge, Albert Nasse, Oscar Pistorius, Vladimir Melanin, Eva Janko, and George Simpson. After him are Bob Schul, Ervin Mészáros, Frederick Moloney, Chūhei Nambu, Tore Sjöstrand, and Charles Bacon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 262. Before him are Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sueo Ōe, Elfriede Kaun, Hermínio de Brito, Julián Marías, and Orhan Kemal. After him are Jeff Corey, Adolf Urban, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Kaisa Parviainen, Robert R. Wilson, and Jaap Bakema. Among people deceased in 1985, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 169. Before him are Bodil Joensen, Ludo Coeck, Karl Zischek, Josip Primožič, C. B. van Niel, and Michel Pécheux. After him are Big Joe Turner, Alexander Mikulin, Jules Vandooren, Olav Sunde, Natalio Perinetti, and Brian Horrocks.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 1,620 out of 3,761. Before him are Dmitry Grigorovich (1822), Ivan Maslennikov (1900), Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann (1861), Nikolai Burlyayev (1946), Vladimir Spivakov (1944), and Vladimir Mashkov (1963). After him are Vladislav Khodasevich (1886), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Alexander Odoevsky (1802), Max Wien (1866), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), and Vladimir Lisin (1956).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yrjö Nikkanen ranks 34. Before him are Anatoly Alyabyev (1951), Tatyana Shchelkanova (1937), Natalya Lisovskaya (1962), Lyudmila Shevtsova (1934), Maria Itkina (1932), and Vladimir Melanin (1933). After him are Leonid Spirin (1932), Alexander Tikhonov (1947), Tatyana Anisimova (1949), Anatoly Mikhaylov (1936), Mark Midler (1931), and Olha Bryzhina (1963).

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