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Detlef Michel

1955 - Today

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Detlef Michel (born October 13, 1955 in Berlin) is a German track and field athlete. He represented East Germany during the 1980s and was one of the world's best in the javelin throw. His most important result came when he won the World Championship title in Helsinki 1983 with a throw of 89.48 meters in adverse conditions (rain), beating world record holder Tom Petranoff (99.72m, 5 May 1983) of the USA by a comfortable margin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Detlef Michel has received more than 18,799 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Detlef Michel is the 2,067th most popular athlete, the 5,610th most popular biography from Germany and the 182nd most popular German Athlete.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Detlef Michel ranks 2,067 out of 6,025. Before him are Ferenc Török, Oscar Osthoff, Saida Gunba, Gail Devers, Nobuo Arai, and Jim Ryun. After him are Filbert Bayi, Frank Kugler, Thierry Vigneron, Shinji Hosokawa, Antonio Siddi, and Garrett Serviss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Detlef Michel ranks 528. Before him are Bill Laswell, Andy Tennant, Steve Sumner, Miloš Hrstić, Cundi, and Yolanda King. After him are Oksana Shvets, Hiroshi Hayano, Donald Pettit, Corey Burton, Stephen Walt, and Karl Del'Haye.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Detlef Michel ranks 5,610 out of 7,253. Before him are Siegfried Brietzke (1952), Maren Ade (1976), Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (1959), Dietmar Woidke (1961), Harald Hein (1950), and Tia Mowry (1978). After him are Frank Kugler (1879), Jens Voigt (1971), Kevin Kampl (1990), Pascal Groß (1991), Ulla Schmidt (1949), and Lutz Dombrowski (1959).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Detlef Michel ranks 182. Before him are Franz Keller (1945), Manfred Germar (1935), Helmut Hamann (1912), Thomas Lange (1964), Siegfried Brietzke (1952), and Harald Hein (1950). After him are Frank Kugler (1879), Lutz Dombrowski (1959), Petra Schersing (1965), Rainer Schmidt (1948), Burglinde Pollak (1951), and Klaus Siebert (1955).

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