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Egon Franke

1935 - 2022

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Egon Johann Franke (23 October 1935 – 30 March 2022) was a Polish fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition. He won a gold medal in the individual foil at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Egon Franke has received more than 3,500 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Egon Franke is the 84th most popular fencer (up from 89th in 2019), the 1,130th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,060th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Fencer.

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Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Egon Franke ranks 84 out of 349Before him are Léon Sée, Armand Massard, Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu, Ödön Tersztyánszky, Ildikó Schwarczenberger, and Gilles Berolatti. After him are Guram Kostava, Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, René Lemoine, Hans Drakenberg, Valentina Prudskova, and Erna Bogen-Bogáti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Egon Franke ranks 431Before him are Antal Kiss, Frank Robinson, Alfredo del Águila, Mal Anderson, Teddy Mayer, and Laurynas Stankevičius. After him are Veli Lehtelä, Oumarou Ganda, Jack McDevitt, Alberto Mariotti, Prem Chopra, and James Cotton. Among people deceased in 2022, Egon Franke ranks 471Before him are Igor Maslennikov, Ronald Lopatni, Pat Carroll, Heidi Biebl, John Aylward, and Andrés Prieto. After him are Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb, Aleksandr Gorshkov, Michel Deguy, Andrei Sukhovetsky, Monty Norman, and John Emery.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Egon Franke ranks 1,130 out of 1,694Before him are Władysław Rubin (1917), Gerard Wodarz (1913), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), Willi Apel (1893), Antoni Słonimski (1895), and Antoni Szymanowski (1951). After him are Nikodem Caro (1871), Józef Pińkowski (1929), Emil Hirschfeld (1903), Bernhard Zondek (1891), Andrzej Sekuła (1954), and Julia Hartwig (1921).

Among FENCERS In Poland

Among fencers born in Poland, Egon Franke ranks 1After him are Erna Bogen-Bogáti (1906), Tadeusz Friedrich (1903), Lech Koziejowski (1949), Sylwia Gruchała (1981), Bartosz Piasecki (1986), Radosław Zawrotniak (1981), Tomasz Motyka (1981), Dagmara Wozniak (1988), Renata Knapik-Miazga (1988), and Martyna Jelińska (1992).