1893 - 1973
Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg (5 April 1893 – 28 April 1973) was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 (along with a silver and a bronze medal) and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz. He was the most successful athlete at both of these Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1928 Winter Olympics with Johan Grøttumsbraaten of Norway. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clas Thunberg has received more than 37,763 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Clas Thunberg is the 7th most popular skater (down from 5th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Finland (up from 77th in 2019) and the most popular Finnish Skater.
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Among skaters, Clas Thunberg ranks 7 out of 315. Before him are Sonja Henie, Ulrich Salchow, Axel Paulsen, Gillis Grafström, Katarina Witt, and Tonya Harding. After him are Oleg Protopopov, Ondrej Nepela, Karl Schäfer, Ludmila Belousova, Ard Schenk, and Ivar Ballangrud.
1912 - 1969
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 1
1877 - 1949
HPI: 59.12
Rank: 2
1855 - 1938
HPI: 58.19
Rank: 3
1893 - 1938
HPI: 57.54
Rank: 4
1965 - Present
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 5
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 6
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 7
1932 - 2023
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 8
1951 - 1989
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 9
1909 - 1976
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 10
1935 - 2017
HPI: 54.63
Rank: 11
1944 - Present
HPI: 53.64
Rank: 12
1904 - 1969
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 13
Among people born in 1893, Clas Thunberg ranks 84. Before him are Dean Acheson, Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, Merian C. Cooper, Henry Murray, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Bai Chongxi. After him are Alexander Korda, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Nestor Lakoba, Armand Călinescu, Raymond Dart, and Israel Joshua Singer. Among people deceased in 1973, Clas Thunberg ranks 79. Before him are Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Frank Jack Fletcher, Robert Smithson, Hans Globke, Merian C. Cooper, and Bruno Maderna. After him are Sessue Hayakawa, Soong Ai-ling, Jack Hawkins, Marc Allégret, Jarno Saarinen, and Bobby Darin.
1893 - 1971
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 78
1893 - 1945
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 79
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 80
1893 - 1988
HPI: 55.93
Rank: 81
1893 - 1957
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 82
1893 - 1966
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 83
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 84
1893 - 1956
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 85
1893 - 1968
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 86
1893 - 1936
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 87
1893 - 1939
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 88
1893 - 1988
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 89
1893 - 1944
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 90
1879 - 1973
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 73
1885 - 1973
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 74
1938 - 1973
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 75
1898 - 1973
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 76
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 77
1920 - 1973
HPI: 55.94
Rank: 78
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 79
1886 - 1973
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 80
1888 - 1973
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 81
1910 - 1973
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 82
1900 - 1973
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 83
1945 - 1973
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 84
1936 - 1973
HPI: 54.67
Rank: 85
Among people born in Finland, Clas Thunberg ranks 69 out of 642. Before him are Wäinö Aaltonen (1894), Bengt Holmström (1949), Ville Ritola (1896), Ilmari Juutilainen (1914), Eino Leino (1878), and Peter Forsskål (1732). After him are Leif Segerstam (1944), Paavo Lipponen (1941), Minna Canth (1844), Edvard Westermarck (1862), Jaakko Hintikka (1929), and Matti Järvinen (1909).
1894 - 1966
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 63
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 64
1896 - 1982
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 65
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.02
Rank: 66
1878 - 1926
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 67
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 68
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 69
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 70
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 71
1844 - 1897
HPI: 55.41
Rank: 72
1862 - 1939
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 73
1929 - 2015
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 74
1909 - 1985
HPI: 55.22
Rank: 75
Among skaters born in Finland, Clas Thunberg ranks 1. After him are Walter Jakobsson (1882), Kaija Mustonen (1941), Lassi Parkkinen (1917), Kiira Korpi (1988), and Laura Lepistö (1988).
1893 - 1973
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 1
1882 - 1957
HPI: 48.06
Rank: 2
1941 - Present
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 3
1917 - 1994
HPI: 43.81
Rank: 4
1988 - Present
HPI: 37.03
Rank: 5
1988 - Present
HPI: 29.93
Rank: 6