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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 167,882 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Duncan White is the 1,230th most popular athlete (down from 877th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (up from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Duncan White ranks 1,230 out of 3,059. Before him are Udham Singh, Douglas Bennett, Klaus Siebert, Therese Zenz, Tiril Eckhoff, and Gösta Lilliehöök. After him are Heinz Körvers, Bohumil Němeček, Arthur Schnabel, Gordon Pirie, István Barta, and Fred Tootell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Duncan White ranks 255. Before him are Barney Ewell, Balasaraswati, Anne Gwynne, Tranquilo Cappozzo, Douglas Bennett, and James Daly. After him are Dusty Anderson, Diana Serra Cary, Pearl Bailey, Gunnel Vallquist, Kenneth Connor, and Thelma Coyne Long. Among people deceased in 1998, Duncan White ranks 257. Before him are Aleksey Spiridonov, Ran Laurie, Louis Hostin, Charles Sibley, Jackie Blanchflower, and John Hunt, Baron Hunt. After him are Fred Davis, Jesús Loroño, Tommy Flowers, Norman Fell, Daniel Massey, and Boris Tatushin.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Duncan White ranks 29 out of 44. Before him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Malcolm Ranjith (1947), Ranil Wickremesinghe (1949), and Dudley Senanayake (1911). After him are D. M. Jayaratne (1931), Thomas Cooray (1901), Bob Tisdall (1907), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), Heather Armitage (1933), and Alexander Khloponin (1965).

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Among ATHLETES In Sri Lanka

Among athletes born in Sri Lanka, Duncan White ranks 1. After him are Bob Tisdall (1907), Heather Armitage (1933), and Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975).

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