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Eddie Tolan

1908 - 1967

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Thomas Edward "Eddie" Tolan (September 29, 1908 – January 30, 1967), nicknamed the "Midnight Express", was an American track and field athlete who competed in sprints. He set world records in the 100-yard dash and 100 meters event and Olympic records in the 100 meters and 200 meters events. He was the first non-Euro-American to receive the title of the "world's fastest human" after winning gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters events at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eddie Tolan has received more than 116,362 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Eddie Tolan is the 346th most popular athlete (down from 188th in 2019), the 5,748th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,359th in 2019) and the 74th most popular American Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

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  • 5.28

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Eddie Tolan ranks 346 out of 3,059. Before him are Edwin Flack, Lars Hall, Tamara Bykova, Georgios Papasideris, Georgios Orphanidis, and Jānis Daliņš. After him are Blanka Vlašić, Berit Mørdre, Rosa Mota, Étienne Gailly, Roald Larsen, and Tyson Gay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Eddie Tolan ranks 231. Before him are Oddbjørn Hagen, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Alfred Eisenbeisser, Karl Hein, Artem Alikhanian, and Francesco Camusso. After him are Concha Piquer, Birgit Cullberg, Eugen Suchoň, Karl Hohmann, Władysław Raginis, and Nikolai Kamanin. Among people deceased in 1967, Eddie Tolan ranks 172. Before him are George S. Robertson, Lajos Kassák, Ann Sheridan, Väinö Kokkinen, Fatima Jinnah, and Henry J. Kaiser. After him are Jaromír Weinberger, Ciro Alegría, Thomas Tien Ken-sin, Gerhard Ritter, William Christian Bullitt Jr., and Jean Alexandre Barré.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eddie Tolan ranks 5,748 out of 18,182. Before him are Carey Lowell (1961), Whitcomb L. Judson (1846), Odetta (1930), John Gray (1951), Kenny Johnson (1963), and Theresa Russell (1957). After him are Chuck Schumer (1950), Gordon Gould (1920), Lewis Arquette (1935), Jonah Falcon (1970), Joey Kramer (1950), and Bob Lazar (1959).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Eddie Tolan ranks 74. Before him are Arthur Blake (1872), Ben Adams (1890), Rafer Johnson (1935), Forrest Smithson (1884), Mel Sheppard (1883), and Charles Moore (1929). After him are Tyson Gay (1982), Henry Russell (1904), John Thomas (1941), Frank Loomis (1896), Allen Woodring (1898), and Honus Wagner (1874).

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