ATHLETE

Erik Lundqvist

1908 - 1963

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Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist (29 June 1908 – 7 January 1963) was a Swedish athlete who won a gold medal in the javelin throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Lundqvist has received more than 16,775 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Erik Lundqvist is the 243rd most popular athlete (up from 368th in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 615th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swedish Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Erik Lundqvists by language

Over the past year Erik Lundqvist has had the most page views in the with 1,654 views, followed by Swedish (902), and Chinese (795). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (63.92%), Egyptian Arabic (57.85%), and Catalan (47.79%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Erik Lundqvist ranks 243 out of 6,025. Before him are Ilmari Salminen, Terry Fox, Asafa Powell, Giulio Gaudini, Dominik Hašek, and Tatyana Kazankina. After him are John Ljunggren, Frederick Lorz, Ben Adams, Robert Kerr, Peter Snell, and Inessa Kravets.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Erik Lundqvist ranks 192. Before him are Jean Effel, Edoardo Amaldi, Arthur O'Connell, Doria Shafik, Elliott Carter, and Krystyna Skarbek. After him are Sucheta Kriplani, Jacques Herbrand, Artem Alikhanian, Gisèle Freund, Don Bradman, and Gualberto Villarroel. Among people deceased in 1963, Erik Lundqvist ranks 105. Before him are Barnum Brown, Lee Wallard, Richard Oswald, André Maschinot, Guy Burgess, and Pierre Blanchar. After him are Vissarion Shebalin, Robert Kerr, Thoralf Skolem, Vsevolod Ivanov, Pingali Venkayya, and Klára Dán von Neumann.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Erik Lundqvist ranks 505 out of 1,879. Before him are Felix Hamrin (1875), Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden (1100), Viktor Rydberg (1828), Charles De Geer (1720), Tommy Körberg (1948), and Kent Andersson (1942). After him are John Ljunggren (1919), Knut Ångström (1857), Sigge Parling (1930), Eva Bonnier (1857), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), and Liza Marklund (1962).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Erik Lundqvist ranks 9. Before him are Klas Lestander (1931), Oscar Swahn (1847), Henrik Sjöberg (1875), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Karl Staaf (1881), and August Nilsson (1872). After him are John Ljunggren (1919), Gert Fredriksson (1919), Henry Eriksson (1920), Arne Åhman (1925), Tore Sjöstrand (1921), and Erik Abrahamsson (1898).

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