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Béla Szepes

1903 - 1986

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Béla Miklós Szepes (né Strauch; 5 September 1903 – 20 June 1986) was a Hungarian skier, athlete, graphic designer and journalist. He competed at the 1924 Winter Olympics and won the silver medal in the javelin throw in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Szepes has received more than 15,158 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Béla Szepes is the 1,530th most popular athlete (down from 1,048th in 2019), the 229th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 196th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Slovak Athlete.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

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  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Béla Szepes ranks 1,530 out of 6,025. Before him are Kenjiro Shinozuka, Curtis Stevens, Joaquín Capilla, Igor Paklin, Don Finlay, and Maurice Verdonck. After him are Hayes Jones, Paul Pilgrim, Gabriele Rossetti, Magnus Goodman, Kenneth Lane, and Yoshihiro Akiyama.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Béla Szepes ranks 329. Before him are Roy Acuff, Fernand Jourdant, Raymond Flacher, Una Merkel, Daphne Akhurst, and Tomoji Abe. After him are Walter Weiler, Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Koto Matsudaira, Gejus van der Meulen, Jan van Diepenbeek, and Willi Multhaup. Among people deceased in 1986, Béla Szepes ranks 268. Before him are Una Merkel, Alan Jay Lerner, Sonny Terry, Heather Angel, Virginia Gregg, and Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira. After him are Felipe Rosas, Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Igor Tselovalnikov, Gardner Fox, Chuck McKinley, and Domingo García.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Béla Szepes ranks 229 out of 418. Before him are Herman Steiner (1905), Mirka Federer (1978), Timrava (1867), Max Weiss (1857), Ľudmila Pajdušáková (1916), and Miroslav Stoch (1989). After him are Daniela Hantuchová (1983), Dominika Cibulková (1989), Tibor Serly (1901), Juraj Kucka (1987), Marián Vajda (1965), and Pavol Biroš (1953).

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Among ATHLETES In Slovakia

Among athletes born in Slovakia, Béla Szepes ranks 7. Before him are Alajos Szokolyi (1871), Vladimír Dzurilla (1942), Imre Németh (1917), József Csermák (1932), Pavel Schmidt (1930), and Ferenc Sidó (1923). After him are Dušan Pašek (1960), Jozef Pribilinec (1960), Imrich Bugár (1955), Michal Martikán (1979), Elena Kaliská (1972), and Pavol Hochschorner (1979).

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