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Esther Brand

1922 - 2015

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Esther Cornelia Brand (née van Heerden; 29 September 1922 – 20 June 2015) was a South African athlete. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the high jump, placed 20th in the discus throw. She was the first African woman to win an Olympic track and field event. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esther Brand has received more than 30,135 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Esther Brand is the 122nd most popular athlete (up from 160th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 55th in 2019) and the most popular South African Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Esther Brand ranks 122 out of 6,025. Before her are Michel Jazy, Alajos Szokolyi, Jim Thorpe, Aleksandr Privalov, Ron Clarke, and Friedrich Traun. After her are Rudolf Bauer, Tilly Fleischer, Galina Chistyakova, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Stamata Revithi, and Vladimír Dzurilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Esther Brand ranks 173. Before her are Esther Lederberg, Maila Nurmi, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Manshuk Mametova, Otl Aicher, and John Edward Williams. After her are George Knobel, Raymond Franz, Hammer DeRoburt, Jean Malaurie, Hilarion Capucci, and Michel Henry. Among people deceased in 2015, Esther Brand ranks 135. Before her are Nigel Terry, Edgar Froese, Vicente Aranda, Lesley Gore, Ron Clarke, and Harald Nielsen. After her are Doris Hart, Ernst Fuchs, Roberto M. Levingston, Robert Conquest, Valentin Rasputin, and Douglas Tompkins.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Esther Brand ranks 45 out of 454. Before her are Andries Pretorius (1798), Rory Byrne (1944), Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), John Vorster (1915), and Marais Viljoen (1915). After her are Manfred Mann (1940), Piet Cronjé (1836), Angelique Rockas (1951), Ronald Harwood (1934), Christiaan de Wet (1854), and Frances Ames (1920).

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Among ATHLETES In South Africa

Among athletes born in South Africa, Esther Brand ranks 1. After her are Reggie Walker (1889), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Sid Atkinson (1901), Bevil Rudd (1894), Marjorie Clark (1909), Cecil McMaster (1895), Lillian Board (1948), Lawrence Stevens (1913), Christian Gitsham (1888), Clarence Walker (1898), and Wayde van Niekerk (1992).

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