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Dana Zátopková

1922 - 2020

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Dana Zátopková (Czech pronunciation: [ˈdana ˈzaːtopkovaː]; née Ingrová [ˈɪŋɡrovaː], 19 September 1922 – 13 March 2020) was a Czech javelin thrower. She won the gold medal for javelin at the 1952 Summer Olympics (only an hour after her husband, Emil Zátopek, won the 5,000 m), and the silver medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics. She was the European champion in 1954 and 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dana Zátopková has received more than 117,984 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Dana Zátopková is the 52nd most popular athlete (down from 11th in 2019), the 237th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Athlete.

Dana Zátopková is most famous for being the first woman to win a world championship in the sport of skeleton.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.34

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Dana Zátopková ranks 52 out of 3,059. Before her are Peter Norman, Valeriy Brumel, Ellery Harding Clark, Ville Ritola, Sebastian Coe, and Eddie Eagan. After her are Dora Ratjen, Hans Woellke, Irving Baxter, Matti Järvinen, Alvin Kraenzlein, and Ole Einar Bjørndalen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Dana Zátopková ranks 125. Before her are Patrick Macnee, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jonas Mekas, Shigeru Mizuki, Pierre Hadot, and Olga Ladyzhenskaya. After her are Gershon Kingsley, Leo Tindemans, Manuel Fraga, Raymond Franz, Vasili Mitrokhin, and Eleanor Parker. Among people deceased in 2020, Dana Zátopková ranks 127. Before her are Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Daniel arap Moi, Shin Kyuk-ho, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Gene Deitch, and Mory Kanté. After her are Otto Barić, Ben Cross, Pascal Lissouba, Peter Sutcliffe, Margaret Burbidge, and Manolis Glezos.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Dana Zátopková ranks 237 out of 973. Before her are Eduard Bloch (1872), Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (1064), Karel Svoboda (1938), Hans Krása (1899), Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1696), and Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796). After her are Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria (1863), Johannes Widmann (1460), Max Dvořák (1874), Bretislav II (1100), Rudolf Serkin (1903), and Jan Kodeš (1946).

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Among ATHLETES In Czechia

Among athletes born in Czechia, Dana Zátopková ranks 2. Before her are Emil Zátopek (1922). After her are Jan Jindra (1932), Jan Železný (1966), František Pospíšil (1944), Dominik Hašek (1965), Ludvík Daněk (1937), Jaroslav Holík (1942), František Janda-Suk (1878), Helena Fibingerová (1949), Olga Fikotová (1932), and Karel Mejta Sr (1928).

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