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Edwin Flack

1873 - 1935

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Edwin Harold Flack (5 November 1873 – 10 January 1935) was an Australian athlete and tennis player. Also known as "Teddy", he was Australia's first Olympian, being its only representative in 1896, and the first Olympic champion in the 800 metres and the 1500 metres running events. Following Flack's Olympic appearance, he did not compete in any large events again, opting to breed cattle and help his family's accounting firm. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Flack has received more than 192,968 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Flack is the 394th most popular athlete (down from 340th in 2019), the 3,059th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,078th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Athlete.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.18

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  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Edwin Flack ranks 394 out of 6,025. Before him are Henri Jobier, Forrest Smithson, Dimitrie Popescu, Galina Bystrova, Jack Broughton, and Emerson Spencer. After him are Allen Woodring, Bobby Morrow, Willie Applegarth, Otis Davis, Sidney Johnson, and Nam Sung-yong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Edwin Flack ranks 131. Before him are Sunao Tawara, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Wilhelm Kreis, Max Švabinský, Jurgis Baltrušaitis, and Pyotr Chardynin. After him are Hamida Javanshir, Carl Vaugoin, Charles P. Dixon, Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Nikolay Bauman, and Jan Janský. Among people deceased in 1935, Edwin Flack ranks 106. Before him are John Hartley, Julia Beck, Eemil Nestor Setälä, Alfred Roller, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Gottlieb von Jagow. After him are Photius II of Constantinople, Milman Parry, Anna Katharine Green, Heinrich Schenker, Emil Młynarski, and Will Rogers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Flack ranks 3,059 out of 8,785. Before him are Gladys Cooper (1888), Jack Cardiff (1914), Richard Hakluyt (1552), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), Jack Broughton (1703), and Steve Marriott (1947). After him are Willie Applegarth (1890), Peter Phillips (1977), Jeremy Northam (1961), James Legge (1815), Madeleine Carroll (1906), and Paul Cook (1956).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Edwin Flack ranks 17. Before him are Jonathan Edwards (1966), Nancy Mackay (1922), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Norman Read (1931), Sidney Robinson (1876), and Jack Broughton (1703). After him are Willie Applegarth (1890), Albert Hill (1889), Arthur Russell (1886), Eddie Owen (1886), Henry Macintosh (1892), and Tommy Hampson (1907).

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