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Clas Thunberg

1893 - 1973

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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

Among skaters, Clas Thunberg ranks 7 out of 315Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Clas Thunberg ranks 84Before 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 79Before 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.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Clas Thunberg ranks 69 out of 642Before 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).

Among SKATERS In Finland

Among skaters born in Finland, Clas Thunberg ranks 1After him are Walter Jakobsson (1882), Kaija Mustonen (1941), Lassi Parkkinen (1917), Kiira Korpi (1988), and Laura Lepistö (1988).