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Ethel Smith

1907 - 1979

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Ethel May Smith (July 5, 1907 – December 31, 1979) was a sprinter from Canada who won two medals at the Amsterdam 1928 Summer Olympics: a bronze medal in the 100 m, and a gold team medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. Smith was born into a poor family and quit school in the eighth grade to work at the Toronto's Garment District. She won the 220 yards at the national championships in 1927 and the 60 yards at the Ontario Championships in 1929. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ethel Smith has received more than 8,988 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ethel Smith is the 168th most popular athlete (down from 145th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Canada (down from 187th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ethel Smith ranks 168 out of 3,059. Before her are Margitta Gummel, Imre Németh, Bobby Pearce, Eugen Schmidt, William Hoyt, and Charles Dvorak. After her are Viorica Viscopoleanu, Chris Dickerson, Helen Stephens, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Pietro Mennea, and Faina Melnik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ethel Smith ranks 166. Before her are John King Fairbank, Sukhdev Thapar, Gunnar Ekelöf, Frederick Copleston, Germaine Tillion, and Benny Carter. After her are Raymond Braine, Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, William Steig, Ramon Magsaysay, and John G. Trump. Among people deceased in 1979, Ethel Smith ranks 126. Before her are Rebecca Clarke, Arno Schmidt, Kurt Jooss, Georges Florovsky, Antonio Caggiano, and Leonid Bykov. After her are Alfred Deller, Paul Dessau, David Butler, Ivar Johansson, Pedro Arico Suárez, and Ludwig Renn.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Ethel Smith ranks 205 out of 1,350. Before her are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Bobby Hull (1939), Jeff Wall (1946), Allan Dwan (1885), Mary Simon (1947), and Nathan Fillion (1971). After her are Naomi Klein (1970), Raymond Massey (1896), John van 't Schip (1963), Richard Williams (1933), Terry Fox (1958), and Hume Cronyn (1911).

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Among ATHLETES In Canada

Among athletes born in Canada, Ethel Smith ranks 1. After her are Terry Fox (1958), Percy Williams (1908), Duncan McNaughton (1910), Étienne Desmarteau (1873), David Hall (1875), Alex Wilson (1905), Earl Thomson (1895), Walter Byron (1894), Jane Bell (1910), Donald Arnold (1935), and Edward Archibald (1884).

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