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Fred Anton Maier

1938 - 2015

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Fred Anton Maier (15 December 1938 – 9 June 2015) was a speed skater from Norway. He was among the dominating skaters throughout the 1960s, specialising in the longer distances. Maier won four Olympic medals: silver on the 10,000 m and bronze on the 5,000 m at the 1964 Olympics, and gold on the 5,000 m and silver on the 10,000 m at the 1968 Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Anton Maier has received more than 21,599 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Fred Anton Maier is the 24th most popular skater (up from 36th in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from Norway (up from 270th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Norwegian Skater.

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  • 22k

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  • 50.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Fred Anton Maier ranks 24 out of 315. Before him are Hjalmar Andersen, Magda Julin, Tony Hawk, Evgeni Plushenko, Ludowika Jakobsson, and Eric Heiden. After him are Herma Szabo, Andrée Brunet, Helene Engelmann, Ernst Baier, Brian Orser, and Nancy Kerrigan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Fred Anton Maier ranks 270. Before him are José Torres, Anatoly Marchenko, Nayef Hawatmeh, Willi Schulz, Anar Rzayev, and Anna Wierzbicka. After him are Mirko Kovač, Imre Földi, Jaswant Singh, Myroslav Skoryk, Tang Jiaxuan, and David Bailey. Among people deceased in 2015, Fred Anton Maier ranks 187. Before him are Wan Li, Walter Burkert, Czesław Kiszczak, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Slavko Avsenik, and Sergio Sollima. After him are Ján Chryzostom Korec, Yogi Berra, Movita Castaneda, Ron Clarke, Guy Béart, and Ahmed Chalabi.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Fred Anton Maier ranks 197 out of 927. Before him are Egil Danielsen (1933), Jacob Aall (1773), Kjetil André Aamodt (1971), Knut Haugland (1917), Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (1961), and Thekla Resvoll (1871). After him are Erling Skakke (1115), Christopher Hansteen (1784), Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818), Odvar Nordli (1927), Alf Prøysen (1914), and Sverre Hassel (1876).

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Among SKATERS In Norway

Among skaters born in Norway, Fred Anton Maier ranks 5. Before him are Sonja Henie (1912), Axel Paulsen (1855), Ivar Ballangrud (1904), and Hjalmar Andersen (1923). After him are Knut Johannesen (1933), Sverre Farstad (1920), Finn Helgesen (1919), Roald Aas (1928), Sten Stensen (1947), Odd Lundberg (1917), and Johann Olav Koss (1968).

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