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Gaston Reiff

1921 - 1992

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Gaston Étienne Ghislaine Reiff (24 February 1921 – 6 May 1992) was a Belgian runner. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics in the 5000 m event and won it in 1948, defeating Emil Zátopek in the final and becoming the first Belgian track and field athlete to win an Olympic title. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaston Reiff has received more than 27,245 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gaston Reiff is the 94th most popular athlete (down from 92nd in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 330th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gaston Reiff ranks 94 out of 3,059. Before him are Ibolya Csák, Eric Liddell, Milkha Singh, Naoto Tajima, Fritz Hofmann, and Stefka Kostadinova. After him are Vladimír Dzurilla, Aleksander Klumberg, Pyotr Bolotnikov, Saïd Aouita, Keto Losaberidze, and John Paine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Gaston Reiff ranks 160. Before him are Deanna Durbin, Mustafa Ben Halim, Kocheril R. Narayanan, Abe Vigoda, Fernando Fernán Gómez, and Violette Szabo. After him are Hans Albert, Gitta Sereny, Ilse Aichinger, Louis Lachenal, Joseph A. Walker, and Georgy Beregovoy. Among people deceased in 1992, Gaston Reiff ranks 102. Before him are Jim Garrison, Joe Shuster, John G. Kemeny, Néstor Almendros, Paul Henreid, and Marisa Mell. After him are Rihei Sano, Suleiman Frangieh, Lusine Zakaryan, Ernst Schäfer, Seichō Matsumoto, and Chris McCandless.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Gaston Reiff ranks 328 out of 1,019. Before him are Adeliza of Louvain (1103), Abraham Brueghel (1631), Henry IV, Duke of Brabant (1251), Willy Mairesse (1928), Patrick Sercu (1944), and Lambert I, Count of Louvain (1000). After him are Lambert Lombard (1505), Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1500), Arnulf, Count of Holland (951), Firmin Lambot (1886), Prince Laurent of Belgium (1963), and Stradanus (1523).

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Among ATHLETES In Belgium

Among athletes born in Belgium, Gaston Reiff ranks 1. After him are Hubert Van Innis (1866), Gaston Roelants (1937), Joël Robert (1943), Ivo Van Damme (1954), Étienne Gailly (1922), Emiel Puttemans (1947), Aimé Haegeman (1861), Paul Van Asbroeck (1874), Désiré Beaurain (1881), Maurice Verdonck (1873), and Victor Willems (1877).

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