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Alvin Kraenzlein

1876 - 1928

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Alvin Christian "Al" Kraenzlein (December 12, 1876 – January 6, 1928) was an American track-and-field athlete known as "the father of the modern hurdling technique". He was the first sportsman in the history of the Olympic games to win four individual gold medals in a single discipline at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. As of 2016, Alvin Kraenzlein is the only track-and-field athlete who has won four individual titles at one Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alvin Kraenzlein has received more than 84,117 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Alvin Kraenzlein is the 50th most popular athlete (up from 57th in 2019), the 2,156th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,590th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Alvin Kraenzlein ranks 50 out of 6,025. Before him are Viktor Saneyev, Gaston Aumoitte, Archie Hahn, Sohn Kee-chung, Tommie Smith, and Coroebus of Elis. After him are Gustavo Marzi, Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Valeriy Brumel, Jim Hines, Betty Robinson, and Walter Schröder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Alvin Kraenzlein ranks 61. Before him are Henri de Baillet-Latour, Joseph Meister, Edvard Eriksen, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria, and Prince Harald of Denmark. After him are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, André Tardieu, Ettore Bastico, Viktor Kaplan, Josef Hofmann, and A. L. Kroeber. Among people deceased in 1928, Alvin Kraenzlein ranks 40. Before him are Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden, Narayana Guru, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, Ebenezer Howard, Hideyo Noguchi, and Pavel Axelrod. After him are Edward Walter Maunder, Hannah Chaplin, Léon Duguit, José Sánchez del Río, Eglantyne Jebb, and Adolphe Appia.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alvin Kraenzlein ranks 2,156 out of 20,380. Before him are Beau Bridges (1941), Harold Garfinkel (1917), Cloris Leachman (1926), Mike Pompeo (1963), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), and Laura Dern (1967). After him are George Wallace (1919), George B. McClellan (1826), William Sadler (1950), E. E. Cummings (1894), Joe Pantoliano (1951), and Ted Danson (1947).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Alvin Kraenzlein ranks 18. Before him are Larry Scott (1938), Max Emmerich (1879), Tom Courtney (1933), Louis Zamperini (1917), Archie Hahn (1880), and Tommie Smith (1944). After him are Jim Hines (1946), Betty Robinson (1911), Wilma Rudolph (1940), Platt Adams (1885), Ralph Boston (1939), and Al Oerter (1936).

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