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Duncan White

1918 - 1998

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Major Deshamanya Duncan M. White MBE, ED (1 March 1918 – 3 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan sportsman. He was the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal, winning silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duncan White has received more than 189,077 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Duncan White is the 1,546th most popular athlete (down from 1,229th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 29th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Duncan White ranks 1,546 out of 6,025. Before him are Sultan Rakhmanov, Michel Knuysen, Joaquim Cruz, Ramón Tapia, Marjorie Gestring, and Edy Hubacher. After him are Antonina Lazareva, Mamdouh Elssbiay, Gelindo Bordin, Derartu Tulu, Hans Haas, and Jorge Llopart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Duncan White ranks 285. Before him are Margaret Osborne duPont, Eero Kolehmainen, Ivo Radovniković, Shunpei Uto, Lohengrin Filipello, and Dick Esser. After him are Avery Dulles, Thelma Coyne Long, Diana Serra Cary, Pearl Bailey, Jeanne Bates, and Said Mohamed Jaffar. Among people deceased in 1998, Duncan White ranks 285. Before him are Daniel Massey, Persis Khambatta, Louis Hostin, Charles Sibley, René Ferrier, and Anna J. Harrison. After him are Augusto Magli, Elio Morille, Tommy Flowers, James Lighthill, Hammond Innes, and Dan Osman.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Duncan White ranks 32 out of 51. Before him are Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Dudley Senanayake (1911), D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), and Thomas Cooray (1901). After him are Joyce Cooper (1909), John Kotelawala (1897), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), Bob Tisdall (1907), Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932), and Muttiah Muralitharan (1972).

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Among ATHLETES In Sri Lanka

Among athletes born in Sri Lanka, Duncan White ranks 2. Before him are Heather Armitage (1933). After him are Bob Tisdall (1907), Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975), Mathilda Karlsson (null), Yupun Abeykoon (1994), Natalia (null), and Nimali Liyanarachchi (null).

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