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Arie van Vliet

1916 - 2001

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Arie Gerrit van Vliet (18 March 1916 – 9 July 2001) was a Dutch sprint cyclist. Between 1934 and 1957, he won 13 medals at world championships, including four gold medals, and set several world records in sprint events, despite the interruption by World War II. He also won a gold medal in 1000 m time trial and a silver medal in the individual sprint at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arie van Vliet has received more than 27,561 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Arie van Vliet is the 282nd most popular athlete (up from 654th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 726th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Dutch Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Arie van Vliet ranks 282 out of 6,025. Before him are Evelyne Hall, Nadezhda Chizhova, Juhani Suutarinen, Donald Lippincott, Gert Fredriksson, and Miklós Németh. After him are Ed Ablowich, Dimitrios Golemis, Milka Babović, Harold Osborn, Karen Harup, and Adolphe Grisel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Arie van Vliet ranks 149. Before him are Jurij Brězan, Carlo Rustichelli, Wan Li, Keenan Wynn, Françoise Giroud, and Jack Arnold. After him are Evelyn Keyes, Paul Halmos, Dom Mintoff, Anton Diffring, Werner Bischof, and Antonio Buero Vallejo. Among people deceased in 2001, Arie van Vliet ranks 155. Before him are Paul Magloire, Stelios Kazantzidis, Salahuddin of Selangor, Jaromil Jireš, Helge Ingstad, and Don Bradman. After him are Malcom McLean, Robert Leckie, Enrique Mateos, Ninette de Valois, Katharine Graham, and Ken Aston.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Arie van Vliet ranks 577 out of 1,646. Before him are Gysbert Japiks (1603), Maruschka Detmers (1962), Neelie Kroes (1941), Maarten Schmidt (1929), Eise Eisinga (1744), and Jan de Vries (1944). After him are Arie den Hartog (1941), Kees Kist (1952), Jan Mostaert (1475), Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom (1562), Princess Louise of Orange-Nassau (1770), and Semmy Schilt (1973).

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Among ATHLETES In Netherlands

Among athletes born in Netherlands, Arie van Vliet ranks 3. Before him are Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918), and Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs (1923). After him are Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923), Tinus Osendarp (1916), François Brandt (1874), Roelof Klein (1877), Jopie Selbach (1918), Johannes van Dijk (1868), Willem Slijkhuis (1923), Chris Berger (1911), and Hermanus Brockmann (1871).

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