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Barbara Krause

1959 - Today

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Barbara Krause (later Wanja, born 7 July 1959 in East Berlin) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany. She was a three-time Olympic gold medalist and eight-time world record holder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Krause has received more than 52,762 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Barbara Krause is the 61st most popular swimmer (down from 52nd in 2019), the 4,853rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,479th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Swimmer.

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  • 46.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Barbara Krause ranks 61 out of 709Before her are Katie Ledecky, Kusuo Kitamura, Nida Senff, Greta Johansson, John Arthur Jarvis, and Erich Rademacher. After her are Ford Konno, Emil Rausch, Martha Norelius, Lynn Burke, Cathy Ferguson, and Ragnhild Hveger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Barbara Krause ranks 289Before her are Juan José Campanella, Peter Doig, Vladimir Yashchenko, Thomas Allofs, Rineke Dijkstra, and Jadranko Prlić. After her are Shawn Weatherly, Marcelo Ebrard, Rubén Paz, Waldemar Pawlak, Lone Scherfig, and Ali Bujsaim.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Barbara Krause ranks 4,853 out of 7,253Before her are Günther Oettinger (1953), Georg Calixtus (1586), Marco Bode (1969), Peter Struck (1943), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), and Franz Weidenreich (1873). After her are Walter Giller (1927), Ludwig Stubbendorf (1906), Friedrich Ludwig Persius (1803), Adrian Sutil (1983), Emil Rausch (1883), and Markus Babbel (1972).

Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Barbara Krause ranks 5Before her are Roland Matthes (1950), Kornelia Ender (1958), Hilde Schrader (1910), and Erich Rademacher (1901). After her are Emil Rausch (1883), Georg Zacharias (1884), Max Hainle (1882), Michael Gross (1964), Max Schöne (1880), Otto Fahr (1892), and Ulrike Richter (1959).