CYCLIST

Ferdinand Bracke

1939 - Today

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Ferdinand Bracke (born 25 May 1939) is a Belgian former professional road and track cyclist who is most famous for holding the World Hour Record (48.093 km) and winning the overall title at the 1971 Vuelta a España in front of Wilfried David of Belgium and Luis Ocaña of Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Bracke has received more than 30,259 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ferdinand Bracke is the 120th most popular cyclist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 564th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 510th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Belgian Cyclist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Ferdinand Bracke ranks 120 out of 1,613. Before him are Peter Post, Robert Marchand, Rolf Wolfshohl, Fritz Schär, Albert Richter, and Hippolyte Aucouturier. After him are Miguel Poblet, Georges Ronsse, Viatcheslav Ekimov, Claude Criquielion, Italo De Zan, and Roger Lapébie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Ferdinand Bracke ranks 341. Before him are Jimmie Nicol, Vladimír Weiss, Maeve Binchy, Edwin Frederick O'Brien, Raymond J. Barry, and Christodoulos of Athens. After him are Vivi Bach, Richard Posner, Yves Boisset, Helen Prejean, Breyten Breytenbach, and Günther Herrmann.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Ferdinand Bracke ranks 564 out of 1,190. Before him are Arnold Badjou (1909), Georges Eekhoud (1854), Charles de Broqueville (1860), Yannick Carrasco (1993), Henri Grégoire (1881), and Arthur Legat (1898). After him are Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Georges Ronsse (1906), Claude Criquielion (1957), Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella (1790), Guido Reybrouck (1941), and Camille Lemonnier (1844).

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Among CYCLISTS In Belgium

Among cyclists born in Belgium, Ferdinand Bracke ranks 26. Before him are Romain Maes (1912), Sylvère Maes (1909), Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948), Jean Aerts (1907), Michel Pollentier (1951), and Marcel Kint (1914). After him are Georges Ronsse (1906), Claude Criquielion (1957), Guido Reybrouck (1941), Edward Van Dijck (1918), André Noyelle (1931), and Germain Derycke (1929).

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