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Frank Shorter

1947 - Today

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Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Shorter has received more than 498,858 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Frank Shorter is the 910th most popular athlete (down from 367th in 2019), the 4,923rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,916th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Athlete.

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  • 500k

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  • 46.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Frank Shorter ranks 910 out of 6,025. Before him are Lien Gisolf, Anastasiya Kuzmina, Olavi Mannonen, Paul Costello, Reidar Liaklev, and Rudolf Povarnitsyn. After him are Erich Borchmeyer, Guido Balzarini, Frank Dixon, Oliver Macdonald, Pavel Lednyov, and Sven-Olov Sjödelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Frank Shorter ranks 581. Before him are Bilal Philips, Warren Zevon, John Lipsky, Randy Edelman, Jerónimo de Sousa, and Cindy Williams. After him are Nurlan Balgimbayev, Stuart Hameroff, Majgull Axelsson, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Subhash Kak, and Babita.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frank Shorter ranks 4,923 out of 7,253. Before him are Frank Schätzing (1957), Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (1857), Max Fürbringer (1846), Hermann Oldenberg (1854), Jamal Musiala (2003), and Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (1904). After him are Erich Borchmeyer (1905), Tré Cool (1972), Eduard von Martens (1831), Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), Wolfgang Peters (1929), and Tomer Sisley (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Frank Shorter ranks 71. Before him are Ludwig Stubbendorf (1906), Martha Genenger (1911), Hermann Wilker (1874), Gustav Goßler (1879), Marita Lange (1943), and Jörg Lucke (1942). After him are Erich Borchmeyer (1905), Martin Lauer (1937), Gustav Schäfer (1906), Johanna Klier (1952), Helga Seidler (1949), and Dieter Krause (1936).

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