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Alberto Zorrilla

1906 - 1986

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Victoriano Alberto Zorrilla (April 6, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was an Argentine swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics where he became the first South American to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. Zorrilla, aged just 18 years old, competed in Paris, France in the 1924 Summer Olympics, he entered in three events, in the 100 metres freestyle he finished 2nd behind Clayton Bourne from Canada in his opening heat so qualified for the semi-finals, in the semi-final he finished sixth nearly seven seconds behind winner Johnny Weissmuller who broke the Olympic record, in his other two events he didn't get past the heats, in the 400 metres freestyle he finished 4th, and in the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay he again finished 4th in the heat. Four years later he was competing in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he entered four events this time, in the 400 metres freestyle he won both his heat and semi-final, and then in the final he swam a time of 5:01.6 winning the gold medal and breaking the Olympic record which Johnny Weissmuller had set at the previous Olympics, thus also becoming South America's first Olympic swimming gold medalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Zorrilla has received more than 26,856 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alberto Zorrilla is the 14,878th most popular politician (down from 14,750th in 2019), the 453rd most popular biography from Argentina (up from 495th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Argentinean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alberto Zorrilla ranks 14,878 out of 19,576. Before him are Tomás Frías, Princess Marie of Hanover, Philippe Séguin, Benizelos Roufos, Carlo Petrini, and W. T. Cosgrave. After him are Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, Petre P. Carp, Pia Cramling, Sakari Tuomioja, Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Alberto Zorrilla ranks 302. Before him are Petre Steinbach, Ed Hamm, Ernst Krebs, Benedicto de Moraes Menezes, Alexander Kazantsev, and Ferit Melen. After him are Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Rafaela Aparicio, Jean Amrouche, Ödön Zombori, Albrecht Becker, and Milorad Arsenijević. Among people deceased in 1986, Alberto Zorrilla ranks 217. Before him are Lothar Bolz, Joyce Mansour, Tommy Douglas, Jean Cassou, Lyudmila Pakhomova, and Oleg Goncharenko. After him are Leona Woods, Noboru Terada, Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Enrique Tierno Galván, Volodymyr Pravyk, and Samuel Zauber.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alberto Zorrilla ranks 453 out of 1,154. Before him are José Durand Laguna (1885), Federico Vairo (1930), Ángel Bargas (1946), Norberto Boggio (1931), Pedro Dellacha (1926), and León Gieco (1951). After him are Pedro Pasculli (1960), Raúl Belén (1931), Raúl Francisco Primatesta (1919), Hebe de Bonafini (1928), Alfredo Devincenzi (1907), and Ernesto Belis (1909).

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Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Alberto Zorrilla ranks 79. Before him are Mariano Moreno (1778), José Figueroa Alcorta (1860), Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman (1844), Daniel Scioli (1957), José Rondeau (1773), and Victoria Villarruel (1975). After him are Gabriela Michetti (1965), José María Linares (1808), Manuel Gondra (1871), Duncan Stewart (1833), Alfredo Copello (1903), and Héctor Rossetto (1922).

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