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Armas Taipale

1890 - 1976

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Armas Rudolf Taipale (27 July 1890 – 9 November 1976) was a Finnish athlete. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won gold medals in two discus throw events, conventional and two-handed, where the total was counted as a sum of best throws with a left hand and with a right hand. After World War I he won a silver medal in the conventional discus throw at the 1920 Olympics and finished tenth in the shot put. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Armas Taipale has received more than 20,228 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Armas Taipale is the 224th most popular athlete (up from 266th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Finland (up from 180th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Armas Taipale ranks 224 out of 3,059Before him are Milka Babović, Yang Chuan-kwang, Parry O'Brien, Samuel Jones, Arthur Russell, and Leonid Zhabotinsky. After him are Dragutin Šurbek, Micheline Ostermeyer, Francis Lane, Georg Åberg, Ilmari Salminen, and Fred Kelly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Armas Taipale ranks 137Before him are André Gobert, Elizabeth Bolden, Henri Decoin, Boris Delaunay, Maurice Genevoix, and Alexander Granach. After him are Katherine Anne Porter, Helge Løvland, Cecil Kellaway, Heinrich Zimmer, Moa Martinson, and Yitzhak Sadeh. Among people deceased in 1976, Armas Taipale ranks 132Before him are Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Marguerite Laugier, Percy Faith, Bertha Lutz, Haddon Sundblom, and Sergei Shtemenko. After him are Pierre Jean Jouve, Otto Tief, Jimmy Reed, Hamit Kaplan, Floyd Council, and Conduelo Píriz.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Armas Taipale ranks 156 out of 642Before him are Juha Sipilä (1961), Harald Öhquist (1891), Gustaf Molander (1888), Janne Ahonen (1977), Paavo Berglund (1929), and Tapio Rautavaara (1915). After him are Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958), Leevi Madetoja (1887), Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870), Ilmari Salminen (1902), Johan Wilhelm Rangell (1894), and JJ Lehto (1966).

Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Armas Taipale ranks 13Before him are Lauri Lehtinen (1908), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Lauri Virtanen (1904), Elias Katz (1901), and Veikko Kankkonen (1940). After him are Ilmari Salminen (1902), Julius Skutnabb (1889), Julius Saaristo (1891), Elmer Niklander (1890), Harri Larva (1906), and Edvin Wide (1896).