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Yuriy Sedykh

1955 - 2021

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Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh (Russian: Ю́рий Гео́ргиевич Седы́х, Ukrainian: Юрій Георгійович Сєдих) (11 June 1955 – 14 September 2021) was a track and field athlete who represented the Soviet Union from 1976 to 1991 in the hammer throw. He was a European, World and Olympic Champion, and holds the world record with a throw of 86.74 m in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuriy Sedykh is the 64th most popular athlete (up from 68th in 2019), the 592nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 683rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 64 out of 6,025. Before him are Fanny Blankers-Koen, Reggie Walker, Lasse Virén, Charles Bennett, Ville Ritola, and Wallace. After him are Patrick Ryan, Alajos Szokolyi, Hubert Van Innis, Marina Doria, Zoltán Horváth, and Jim Lightbody.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 98. Before him are Alessandro Altobelli, Yo-Yo Ma, Deborra-Lee Furness, John O. Brennan, Mira Furlan, and Simon Rattle. After him are Jeff Koons, Richard Schiff, Debra Winger, John X of Antioch, Big Van Vader, and Fernando Meirelles. Among people deceased in 2021, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 128. Before him are Dean Stockwell, Luis del Sol, Vicente Fernández, Helen McCrory, Mira Furlan, and Tarcisio Burgnich. After him are Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Ion Mihai Pacepa, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Adam Zagajewski, Enrique Bolaños, and Yaphet Kotto.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 592 out of 3,761. Before him are Sergey Sazonov (1860), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Iziaslav II of Kiev (1097), Vasily Chapayev (1887), Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), and Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev (1892). After him are Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Taihō Kōki (1940), Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), Werner Ostendorff (1903), and Sergei Novikov (1938).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yuriy Sedykh ranks 2. Before him are Irena Szewińska (1946). After him are Vasily Alekseyev (1942), Valeriy Brumel (1942), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953), Vera Krepkina (1933), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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