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George Rhoden

1926 - 2024

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George Vincent Rhoden (13 December 1926 – 24 August 2024) was a Jamaican athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1952. Rhoden was born in Kingston on 13 December 1926. He later moved to San Francisco, California, and was one of the successful long sprinters from Jamaica in the late 1940s and early 1950s, along with Arthur Wint and Herb McKenley. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Rhoden has received more than 55,951 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). George Rhoden is the 498th most popular athlete (up from 878th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 44th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Jamaican Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, George Rhoden ranks 498 out of 6,025. Before him are Ellen Braumüller, Imre Nagy, Géo André, Georgios Papasideris, Doina Melinte, and Elżbieta Krzesińska. After him are Klaus Bonsack, Fauja Singh, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Roger de Barbarin, Sid Atkinson, and Percy Williams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, George Rhoden ranks 317. Before him are Heino Kruus, Veikko Karvonen, Edmund Purdom, Ann Curtis, Anahit Tsitsikian, and Ibrahim Nasir. After him are John Ericson, Ursula Happe, Joseíto, Giancarlo Bergamini, Ede Király, and Kerwin Mathews. Among people deceased in 2024, George Rhoden ranks 257. Before him are Bernard Pivot, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Annelie Ehrhardt, Joe Bryant, Roy Haynes, and Joe Engle. After him are Shuntarō Tanikawa, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Piedad Córdoba, Elias Khoury, Józef Szmidt, and Eugenio Dal Corso.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, George Rhoden ranks 33 out of 189. Before him are Cedella Booker (1926), Mary Seacole (1805), Shaggy (1968), Prince Buster (1938), John Barnes (1963), and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (1986). After him are Portia Simpson-Miller (1945), Raheem Sterling (1994), Monty Alexander (1944), Don Quarrie (1951), Carl Douglas (1942), and King Tubby (1941).

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Among ATHLETES In Jamaica

Among athletes born in Jamaica, George Rhoden ranks 6. Before him are Usain Bolt (1986), Ben Johnson (1961), Merlene Ottey (1960), Asafa Powell (1982), and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (1986). After him are Don Quarrie (1951), George Kerr (1937), Lennox Miller (1946), Yohan Blake (1989), Arthur Wint (1920), and Shawn Rhoden (1975).

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