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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. Flack died aged 61 following an operation, and was buried in his hometown of Berwick. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Flack has received more than 170,228 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Flack is the 340th most popular athlete (up from 424th in 2019), the 3,086th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,352nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Edwin Flack ranks 340 out of 3,059Before him are Forrest Smithson, Erik Abrahamsson, Elmer Niklander, Henry Eriksson, Mel Sheppard, and Charles Moore. After him are Lars Hall, Tamara Bykova, Georgios Papasideris, Georgios Orphanidis, Jānis Daliņš, and Eddie Tolan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Edwin Flack ranks 125Before him are Wojciech Korfanty, Hamida Javanshir, Antonín Švehla, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Rudolf Tobias, and Ivan Shmelyov. After him are Princess Bathildis of Schaumburg-Lippe, Frank Wild, Rosa Sensat, Oscar von Sydow, Ivan Babushkin, and Jurgis Baltrušaitis. Among people deceased in 1935, Edwin Flack ranks 100Before him are Harald Sohlberg, Emil Młynarski, Milman Parry, Hans Tropsch, Will Rogers, and John Hartley. After him are Daniel Salamanca Urey, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Heinrich Schenker, Albert Ayat, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and Gottlieb von Jagow.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Flack ranks 3,086 out of 7,765Before him are Robert Simson (1687), Peter Grant (1935), David Stirling (1915), Richard de Bury (1287), John McVie (1945), and John Hartley (1849). After him are Roland Penrose (1900), John Michael Wright (1617), Steven Wilson (1967), Maud Watson (1864), George Raynor (1907), and Gerald Moore (1899).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Edwin Flack ranks 17Before him are Jonathan Edwards (1966), Arthur Russell (1886), George S. Robertson (1872), Robert Lindsay (1890), Wyndham Halswelle (1882), and Robert Kerr (1882). After him are Tommy Hampson (1907), Albert Hill (1889), Bill Roberts (1912), Don Thompson (1933), John Rimmer (1878), and Charles Bennett (1870).