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Bernd Kannenberg

1942 - 2021

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Bernhard "Bernd" Kannenberg (20 August 1942 – 13 January 2021) was a West German race walker who won the 50 km event at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the 20 km at the 1972 and 1976 Games, but failed to finish. In 1972 Kannenberg became the first German athlete to walk 50 km within four hours; the same year he was awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernd Kannenberg has received more than 17,566 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bernd Kannenberg is the 265th most popular athlete (up from 813th in 2019), the 1,387th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,760th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bernd Kannenberg ranks 265 out of 3,059Before him are Veikko Hakulinen, Anatoly Alyabyev, Merlene Ottey, Luigi Beccali, Olga Gyarmati, and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski. After him are Christian d'Oriola, Boughera El Ouafi, Earle Meadows, Peter Snell, Henrik Sjöberg, and Håkon Brusveen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Bernd Kannenberg ranks 360Before him are Meredith Monk, Sterling Morrison, Rita Tushingham, Flora Purim, Marco Rota, and Joaquim Rifé. After him are Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Tammy Wynette, Michael Eisner, Mike Resnick, Gualtiero Bassetti, and Vyacheslav Zudov. Among people deceased in 2021, Bernd Kannenberg ranks 378Before him are Nikolai Slichenko, Momčilo Vukotić, Martí Vergés, Vassilis Alexakis, Hayko, and Willard Scott. After him are Ronald Pickup, Michael Constantine, Håkon Brusveen, Mari Törőcsik, Janet Moreau, and Shirley Fry.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Bernd Kannenberg ranks 1,387 out of 3,262Before him are Joseph Bové (1784), Alexey Troitsky (1866), Oleg Gazmanov (1951), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Alexander Chayanov (1888), and Aleksey Krylov (1863). After him are Vitaly Churkin (1952), Rostislav Alexeyev (1916), Esfir Shub (1894), Osip Brik (1888), Peter Romanovsky (1892), and Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908).

Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Bernd Kannenberg ranks 21Before him are Sergey Litvinov (1958), Alexander Ragulin (1941), Veikko Karvonen (1926), Lyudmila Bragina (1943), Veikko Hakulinen (1925), and Anatoly Alyabyev (1951). After him are Yrjö Nikkanen (1914), Maria Itkina (1932), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), Tatyana Kazankina (1951), Tamara Bykova (1958), and Valeri Popenchenko (1937).