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Dana Vollmer

1987 - Today

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Dana Whitney Vollmer (born November 13, 1987) is a former American competition swimmer, five-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning United States team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay that set the world record in the event. Eight years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Vollmer set the world record on her way to the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, and also won golds in the 4×100-meter medley relay and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dana Vollmer has received more than 434,783 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Dana Vollmer is the 204th most popular swimmer (down from 112th in 2019), the 13,257th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,982nd in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Swimmer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.74

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  • 1.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Dana Vollmer ranks 204 out of 709Before her are Géza Kiss, Gail Neall, Sybil Bauer, Katinka Hosszú, Sun Yang, and Claudia Poll. After her are Jane Barkman, Allison Schmitt, John Konrads, Tamás Darnyi, Andrea Gyarmati, and Lillian Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Dana Vollmer ranks 255Before her are Elnur Hüseynov, Milan Stanković, Jake Abel, Niels Schneider, Jodi Balfour, and Roman Eremenko. After her are Markel Susaeta, Park Joo-ho, Brooklyn Decker, Chun Woo-hee, Élodie Fontan, and Kerli.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dana Vollmer ranks 13,257 out of 20,380Before her are Stephen Bowen (1964), Elizabeth Lail (1992), Joshua Malina (1966), Bokeem Woodbine (1973), Steve Young (1961), and Gifford Pinchot (1865). After her are Jane Barkman (1951), Annie Montague Alexander (1867), Jennifer Lynch (1968), Colin Cunningham (1966), George Clayton Johnson (1929), and William P. Fessenden (1806).

Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Dana Vollmer ranks 76Before her are Marie Corridon (1930), William Yorzyk (1933), Carl Robie (1945), Jerry Heidenreich (1950), Bill Tuttle (1882), and Sybil Bauer (1903). After her are Jane Barkman (1951), Allison Schmitt (1990), Lillian Watson (1950), Matt Vogel (1957), Jenny Thompson (1973), and Shirley Babashoff (1957).