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George Eyser

1870 - 1919

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George Louis Eyser (August 31, 1870 – March 6, 1919) was a German-American gymnast who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics, earning six medals in one day, including three gold and two silver medals. Eyser competed with a wooden prosthesis for a left leg, having lost his leg after being run over by a train. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Eyser has received more than 140,103 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). George Eyser is the 54th most popular gymnast (down from 46th in 2019), the 4,317th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,883rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, George Eyser ranks 54 out of 183Before him are Valentin Muratov, Pietro Bianchi, Veikko Huhtanen, Haakon Sörvik, Masao Takemoto, and Giorgio Zampori. After him are Yelena Shushunova, Mikhail Voronin, Haruhiro Yamashita, Szilveszter Csollány, Rolf Johnsson, and Isak Abrahamsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, George Eyser ranks 128Before him are Charles Bennett, Edwin Foster Coddington, Marcus Loew, Major Ritchie, Hermann Harms, and Herbert Ponting. After him are Lilian Gibbs, John Marin, Maxfield Parrish, Antonius van den Broek, Lloyd Hildebrand, and Frederick G. Donnan. Among people deceased in 1919, George Eyser ranks 129Before him are Alfred Deakin, Henry Clay Frick, Manuel Franco, Petre P. Carp, Huseyn Arablinski, and Robert Bacon. After him are John Aitken, Horatio Parker, Abraham Jacobi, Charles Conrad Abbott, Lawrence Lambe, and William Michael Rossetti.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, George Eyser ranks 4,317 out of 6,142Before him are Annemarie Heinrich (1912), Werner Haas (1927), Günter Bernard (1939), Paul Matschie (1861), Princess Frederica of Hanover (1848), and Jürgen Trittin (1954). After him are Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Ulrich Biesinger (1933), Bernhard Horwitz (1807), Hubert Hahne (1935), Adrian Sutil (1983), and Hedwig Kohn (1887).

Among GYMNASTS In Germany

Among gymnasts born in Germany, George Eyser ranks 6Before him are Carl Schuhmann (1869), Hermann Weingärtner (1864), Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Conrad Böcker (1870), and Konrad Frey (1909). After him are Maxi Gnauck (1964), Roland Brückner (1955), Marcel Nguyen (1987), Andreas Wecker (1970), Fabian Hambüchen (1987), and Philipp Boy (1987).