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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 454,921 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Frank Shorter is the 367th most popular athlete (up from 431st in 2019), the 3,927th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,746th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Athlete.

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  • 47.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Frank Shorter ranks 367 out of 3,059. Before him are Nawal El Moutawakel, Allen Woodring, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Gösta Andersson, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, and Nick Winter. After him are Erik Lundqvist, Józef Szmidt, Giulio Gaudini, Harri Larva, Imre Nagy, and Honus Wagner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Frank Shorter ranks 398. Before him are Tristan Murail, Steve Marriott, Goran Paskaljević, Peter Chen, Candy Clark, and Rikky von Opel. After him are Philémon Yang, Prince Hassan bin Talal, Akira Terao, Gerald McRaney, Ntare V of Burundi, and Daishiro Yoshimura.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Frank Shorter ranks 3,927 out of 6,142. Before him are Theo Waigel (1939), Anton Diffring (1916), Gerhard Ritter (1888), Johan Zoffany (1733), Yaakov Litzman (1948), and Uwe Rahn (1962). After him are Elisabeth Schumann (1888), Michael Gwisdek (1942), Walter Kempowski (1929), Ernst Hoppenberg (1878), Jeri Ryan (1968), and Bruno Labbadia (1966).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Frank Shorter ranks 22. Before him are Gisela Mauermayer (1913), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Karin Balzer (1938), Andreas Krieger (1965), Wolfgang Nordwig (1943), and Karl Hein (1908). After him are Christa Stubnick (1933), Renate Stecher (1950), Marlies Göhr (1958), Arthur Jonath (1909), Elfriede Kaun (1914), and Ulf Timmermann (1962).

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