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Bill Holland

1874 - 1930

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William Joseph Holland (March 3, 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts – November 20, 1930 in Malden, Massachusetts) was an American track and field athlete. At the age of 26, Holland, a medical student at Georgetown University, won the silver medal in the men's 400-meter dash race at the 1900 Summer Olympics, in Paris, France, with a time of 49.6 seconds, just 2 tenth of a second behind Gold medal winner U.S. teammate Maxie Long. Holland placed fourth in the 200-meter dash, winning his semifinal heat with a time of 24.0 seconds before finishing fourth of four in the hotly contested final, in which his estimated time of 22.9 seconds was identical to that of the bronze medalist Stan Rowley and 0.1 seconds slower than the second place man, Norman Pritchard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Holland has received more than 58,172 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bill Holland is the 525th most popular athlete (down from 464th in 2019), the 6,317th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,455th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bill Holland ranks 525 out of 6,025. Before him are Louis Glineur, Morris Kirksey, Percy Hodge, Manlio Di Rosa, Edward Marsh, and Remigijus Valiulis. After him are Stanisław Kowalski, Jaroslav Holík, Frank Irons, Giancarlo Bergamini, Lee Barnes, and Cornelius Warmerdam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Bill Holland ranks 174. Before him are Auguste Giroux, Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias, Launceston Elliot, Eugène Balme, Frank Elmore Ross, and Edward Marsh. After him are Akaki Chkhenkeli, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, Hjalmar Johansson, François Brandt, Arthur Meighen, and Josep Irla. Among people deceased in 1930, Bill Holland ranks 97. Before him are Florbela Espanca, Walther Reinhardt, Laura Muntz Lyall, Henry Dudeney, Vladan Đorđević, and Launceston Elliot. After him are Vintilă Brătianu, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Florian Cajori, Leonard Meredith, Nikolay Kasatkin, and Alfred John Keene.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bill Holland ranks 6,317 out of 20,380. Before him are Gary Lockwood (1937), Edward Marsh (1874), William Merritt Chase (1849), Letitia Christian Tyler (1790), Miriam Stevenson (1933), and Marvin Hart (1876). After him are Mike Krzyzewski (1947), Garry Winogrand (1928), Joshua Bell (1967), Frank Irons (1886), Anne Jackson (1925), and Gary Gilmore (1940).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Bill Holland ranks 123. Before him are Johnny Hayes (1886), Hector Dyer (1910), Frank Loomis (1896), Fred Kelly (1891), Morris Kirksey (1895), and Edward Marsh (1874). After him are Frank Irons (1886), Lee Barnes (1906), Cornelius Warmerdam (1915), Paul Anderson (1932), Henry Carr (1941), and Roscoe Lockwood (1875).

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