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Douglas Wakiihuri

1963 - Today

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Douglas Wakiihuri (born September 26, 1963, in Mombasa) is a former Kenyan long-distance runner, who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome. No other male Kenyan runner had ever won the marathon at World Championships or Olympic Games until 2007, when Luke Kibet became a world champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Wakiihuri has received more than 37,938 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Douglas Wakiihuri is the 1,851st most popular athlete (down from 1,201st in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Kenya (down from 38th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Kenyan Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Douglas Wakiihuri ranks 1,851 out of 3,059. Before him are Robert Scheidt, Tatyana Lysenko, Petra Schersing, Natalya Shikolenko, Tsvetanka Khristova, and Wilbur Thompson. After him are Sabine Braun, Karnam Malleswari, Gulnara Samitova-Galkina, Sergei Mylnikov, Nikolay Bazhukov, and Jesse Mashburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Douglas Wakiihuri ranks 618. Before him are Hardcore Holly, Chieko Honda, Péter Fülöp Kocsis, Federico Andahazi, Pavel Řehák, and Waldemar Legień. After him are Shawn Lane, Oğuz Çetin, Rajmond Debevec, W. Earl Brown, Daniel Roebuck, and Iqbal Theba.

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In Kenya

Among people born in Kenya, Douglas Wakiihuri ranks 42 out of 140. Before him are Daniel Rudisha (1945), Michael Olunga (1994), Noah Ngeny (1978), Julius Kariuki (1961), Naftali Bon (1945), and Catherine Ndereba (1972). After him are David Rudisha (1988), Saif Saaeed Shaheen (1982), Bernard Lagat (1974), William Tanui (1964), Tegla Loroupe (1973), and Samuel Wanjiru (1986).

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Among ATHLETES In Kenya

Among athletes born in Kenya, Douglas Wakiihuri ranks 21. Before him are Wilson Kiprugut (1938), Daniel Rudisha (1945), Noah Ngeny (1978), Julius Kariuki (1961), Naftali Bon (1945), and Catherine Ndereba (1972). After him are David Rudisha (1988), Saif Saaeed Shaheen (1982), Bernard Lagat (1974), William Tanui (1964), Tegla Loroupe (1973), and Samuel Wanjiru (1986).

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