ATHLETE

Danas Pozniakas

1939 - 2005

Photo of Danas Pozniakas

Icon of person Danas Pozniakas

Danas Pozniakas (19 October 1939 – 4 February 2005) was a Lithuanian amateur light-heavyweight boxer who won the European title in 1965, 1967 and 1969 and an Olympic gold medal in 1968. Pozniakas was born in Poland as Dan Pozniak, and in the 1950s moved to Vilnius, Lithuania, where he took up boxing at age 13. He won the Soviet title in 1962 and a European silver medal in 1963, but at the 1964 Olympic trials lost to Aleksei Kiselyov and was not selected. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Danas Pozniakas has received more than 25,524 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Danas Pozniakas is the 852nd most popular athlete (down from 683rd in 2019), the 1,057th most popular biography from Poland (down from 970th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Danas Pozniakas ranks 852 out of 6,025. Before him are David Hall, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Klaus Beer, Frank Hussey, Ludwig Stubbendorf, and Giuseppe Gentile. After him are Paul Van Asbroeck, Charles Jenkins Sr., Sverre Stenersen, Antonio Conte, Nils Täpp, and Martha Genenger.

Most Popular Athletes in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Danas Pozniakas ranks 422. Before him are Eri Klas, Walt Bellamy, Nicholas Grimshaw, Eduard Kukan, Sandro Lopopolo, and Sonny Fortune. After him are Héctor Salva, Wilhelmina Cooper, Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani, Jovan Miladinović, Joseph Bonnel, and Hadi Khosroshahi. Among people deceased in 2005, Danas Pozniakas ranks 264. Before him are Jocelyn Brando, Otar Korkia, Stéphane Bruey, John Ostrom, Jim Capaldi, and Jack Colvin. After him are Sverre Stenersen, Horacio Casarín, Mustafa Ertan, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Sergei Starostin, and Sergio Cervato.

Others Born in 1939

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 2005

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Danas Pozniakas ranks 1,057 out of 1,694. Before him are Marek Jędraszewski (1949), Klaus Beer (1942), Władysław Broniewski (1897), Waldemar Pawlak (1959), Anna Świrszczyńska (1909), and Elżbieta Witek (1957). After him are Erich Hecke (1887), Halina Poświatowska (1935), Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska (1957), Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888), Artur Brauner (1918), and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953).

Others born in Poland

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Danas Pozniakas ranks 17. Before him are Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Józef Szmidt (1935), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Walter Bathe (1892), Halina Górecka (1938), and Klaus Beer (1942). After him are Jan Werner (1946), Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (1929), Waldemar Baszanowski (1935), Barbara Sobotta (1936), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), and Emil Hirschfeld (1903).

Polish born Athletes

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous