ATHLETE

František Janda-Suk

1878 - 1955

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František Janda-Suk (Czech pronunciation: [ˈfrancɪʃɛk ˈjanda ˈsuk], 25 March 1878 – 23 June 1955) was a Czech athlete who competed for Bohemia in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics and Czechoslovakia at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Postřižín near Roudnice nad Labem and died in Prague. In the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, where he won the silver medal in the discus throw. He - and the Hungarian Rudolf Bauer - was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of František Janda-Suk has received more than 21,527 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). František Janda-Suk is the 508th most popular athlete (down from 446th in 2019), the 581st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 548th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, František Janda-Suk ranks 508 out of 6,025. Before him are Roger de Barbarin, Sid Atkinson, Percy Williams, Henry Macintosh, Carlo Airoldi, and Fred Kelly. After him are Eino Penttilä, Ilona Slupianek, Carl Bertilsson, Iván Pedroso, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and John Mikaelsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, František Janda-Suk ranks 180. Before him are Margaret Abbott, Konrad Mägi, Anton Heida, John Cregan, The Great Gama, and Ernst Alexanderson. After him are Nikolai Avksentiev, Edward Thomas, Henry B. Walthall, Ion Dragoumis, Joel Stebbins, and Ada Adler. Among people deceased in 1955, František Janda-Suk ranks 124. Before him are Ramón Muttis, Alice Joyce, Tom Moore, Margaret Abbott, Leonardus Nardus, and James Agee. After him are Fumio Hayasaka, Johannes de Jong, Tommy Burns, Constantin Argetoianu, Charley Toorop, and Johan Jarlén.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, František Janda-Suk ranks 581 out of 1,200. Before him are Bohuslav Balbín (1621), Vasyl Durdynets (1937), Ferdinand Brokoff (1688), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861), and Marie Kovářová (1927). After him are August von Pelzeln (1825), Alexander von Krobatin (1849), Karel Kolský (1914), Svatopluk Čech (1846), Jaroslav Holík (1942), and Patrik Ouředník (1957).

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Among ATHLETES In Czechia

Among athletes born in Czechia, František Janda-Suk ranks 9. Before him are Dana Zátopková (1922), Dominik Hašek (1965), Ludvík Daněk (1937), František Pospíšil (1944), Olga Fikotová (1932), and Helena Fibingerová (1949). After him are Jaroslav Holík (1942), Karel Mejta Sr (1928), František Čapek (1914), Zdeněk Pecka (1954), Jan Brzák-Felix (1912), and Miloslava Rezková (1950).

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