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Yulia Ryabchinskaya

1947 - 1973

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Yulia Ryabchinskaya (21 January 1947 – 13 January 1973) was a canoeist from Ukraine and Olympic champion. She represented the USSR at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning the gold in the K-1 500 m event. Only four months after her Olympic victory, Ryabchinskaya was taking part in winter training at Lake Paliastomi in the Soviet republic of Georgia when she fell into the water and died from abrupt cooling. An international competition is held in her honor in Moscow every spring. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yulia Ryabchinskaya is the 1,828th most popular athlete (up from 1,909th in 2019), the 914th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 968th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yulia Ryabchinskaya ranks 1,828 out of 6,025. Before her are Kalle Jalkanen, Eva Dawes, Humberto Mariles, Józef Zapędzki, Tom Price, and Darya Domracheva. After her are Tamara Bykova, John McNally, Haruki Uemura, Rinnat Safin, Tamara Manina, and Bob Hayes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Yulia Ryabchinskaya ranks 729. Before her are Jeanne Shaheen, Kinga Göncz, Enrique Chazarreta, Tanith Lee, Dave Arneson, and Mike Krzyzewski. After her are Cemil Turan, Peter Nogly, Elena Solovey, Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Rajko Đurić, and David Bordwell. Among people deceased in 1973, Yulia Ryabchinskaya ranks 260. Before her are Alla Tarasova, Armando Segato, Nasif Estéfano, Conrad Aiken, Folke Rogard, and Aleksandr Ponomarev. After her are Balraj Sahni, Steven Geray, C. H. Dodd, John Heysham Gibbon, Alfred Schmitt, and Manuel Rojas.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yulia Ryabchinskaya ranks 914 out of 1,365. Before her are Arthur F. Burns (1904), Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha (1958), Felix Sobolev (1931), Aleksandr Ponomarev (1918), Diana Karenne (1897), and Dmitry Kozak (1958). After her are Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872), Dmytro Chygrynskiy (1986), Hanka Bielicka (1915), Janusz Majewski (1931), Jerzy Antczak (1929), and Rudolf Plyukfelder (1928).

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Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Yulia Ryabchinskaya ranks 29. Before her are Leonid Bartenyev (1933), Ihor Rybak (1934), Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), Irina Kirichenko (1937), Nina Dumbadze (1919), and John Kelly (null). After her are Rudolf Plyukfelder (1928), Vladimir Yashchenko (1959), Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (1963), Boris Shukhov (1947), Yaroslava Mahuchikh (2001), and Svetlana Krachevskaya (1944).

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