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Eric Heiden

1958 - Today

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Eric Arthur Heiden (born June 14, 1958) is an American physician and a former long track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist. He won an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. Heiden was the most successful athlete at those Olympic Games, single-handedly winning more gold medals than all nations except for the Soviet Union (10) and East Germany (9). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Heiden has received more than 707,464 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Eric Heiden is the 23rd most popular skater (up from 25th in 2019), the 4,313th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,727th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Skater.

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  • 710k

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  • 50.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Eric Heiden ranks 23 out of 315Before him are Sjoukje Dijkstra, Hjalmar Andersen, Magda Julin, Tony Hawk, Evgeni Plushenko, and Ludowika Jakobsson. After him are Fred Anton Maier, Herma Szabo, Andrée Brunet, Helene Engelmann, Ernst Baier, and Brian Orser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Eric Heiden ranks 113Before him are Dragan Đokanović, Didier Reynders, Terry Fox, Yoshito Usui, Michael Flatley, and Kim Boo-kyum. After him are Greg Mankiw, Oscar Schmidt, Lakhdar Belloumi, Phạm Minh Chính, Bertrand Piccard, and Kim Coates.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eric Heiden ranks 4,313 out of 18,182Before him are Ralph Rose (1885), Reuben Fine (1914), Al Taliaferro (1905), Harry Hamlin (1951), Lizzie Magie (1866), and Ted Nugent (1948). After him are Stanley Williams (1953), Daron Malakian (1975), John Henry Holland (1929), Marlon Jackson (1957), Nancy Marchand (1928), and Florence Harding (1860).

Among SKATERS In United States

Among skaters born in United States, Eric Heiden ranks 3Before him are Tonya Harding (1970) and Tony Hawk (1968). After him are Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Charles Jewtraw (1900), Dick Button (1929), Tenley Albright (1935), Peggy Fleming (1948), Janet Lynn (1953), Carol Heiss (1940), David Jenkins (1936), and Irving Jaffee (1906).