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Chris Boardman

1968 - Today

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Christopher Miles Boardman, (born 26 August 1968) is an English former racing cyclist. A time trial and prologue specialist, Boardman won the inaugural men's World time trial championship in 1994, won the individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, broke the world hour record three times, and won three prologue stages (and consequently wore the yellow jersey on three occasions) at the Tour de France. Boardman used the Lotus 108 time trial bicycle designed by Mike Burrows and built by the sports car manufacturer Lotus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Boardman has received more than 737,671 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Chris Boardman is the 500th most popular cyclist (down from 489th in 2019), the 6,169th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,872nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Cyclist.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Chris Boardman ranks 500 out of 1,613. Before him are Giovanni Lombardi, Franco Pellizotti, Niki Terpstra, Mario Aerts, Xavier Florencio, and Maxim Iglinsky. After him are Alexander Kristoff, Juan José Cobo, Rigoberto Urán, Luke Roberts, Major Taylor, and Leontien van Moorsel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Chris Boardman ranks 551. Before him are Luminița Anghel, Dirk Medved, Midori, Sibylle Berg, Dimitri Diatchenko, and Luca Zaia. After him are Dira Paes, Mickaël Madar, Salvatore Licitra, Dan Calichman, Aleš Čeh, and Joey Lauren Adams.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Chris Boardman ranks 6,169 out of 8,785. Before him are Paul Lambert (1969), Alexa Chung (1983), Patrick Roberts (1997), Stan Cullis (1916), James Callis (1971), and Danny Drinkwater (1990). After him are Ritchie Coster (1967), Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein (1995), Joe Corrigan (1948), Lucy Punch (1977), Ian Hancock (1942), and Don McKinnon (1939).

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Among CYCLISTS In United Kingdom

Among cyclists born in United Kingdom, Chris Boardman ranks 22. Before him are Donald Burgess (1933), Alan Geldard (1927), Ronald Stretton (1930), Bryan Steel (1969), George Newberry (1917), and Max Sciandri (1967). After him are Jamie Staff (1973), Adam Yates (1992), Simon Yates (1992), Reg Harris (1920), Sean Yates (1960), and Jason Queally (1970).

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