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Gerhard Stöck

1911 - 1985

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Gerhard Karl Eduard Stöck (28 July 1911 – 29 March 1985) was a German athlete. He won the gold medal in the javelin throw event at the 1936 Summer Olympics and placed third in the shot put. Stöck was the son of a butcher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerhard Stöck has received more than 38,970 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gerhard Stöck is the 258th most popular athlete (down from 222nd in 2019), the 773rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 718th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gerhard Stöck ranks 258 out of 3,059Before him are Veikko Karvonen, Julius Skutnabb, Pål Tyldum, Lyudmila Bragina, Karl Staaf, and Romuald Klim. After him are Veikko Hakulinen, Anatoly Alyabyev, Merlene Ottey, Luigi Beccali, Olga Gyarmati, and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Gerhard Stöck ranks 185Before him are Nagarjun, Xiao Hong, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Guido del Mestri, Said Akl, and Maurice Schumann. After him are Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Mahmoud Taleghani, Ralph Kirkpatrick, André Navarra, Masayuki Mori, and Hédi Amara Nouira. Among people deceased in 1985, Gerhard Stöck ranks 131Before him are E. B. White, Alexander Mikulin, Viorica Ursuleac, Penn Nouth, Henry Hansen, and Laura Ashley. After him are George Murdock, Samantha Smith, Francesca Bertini, Taylor Caldwell, Aksel Airo, and Arkady Fiedler.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Gerhard Stöck ranks 773 out of 1,454Before him are Stanislaus Papczyński (1631), C. L. Gloger (1803), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1820), Józef Chełmoński (1849), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), and Zacharias Ursinus (1534). After him are Boris Kaufman (1906), Jurek Becker (1937), Johannes Thiele (1860), August Emil Fieldorf (1895), Alina Szapocznikow (1926), and Yitzhak Sadeh (1890).

Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Gerhard Stöck ranks 7Before him are Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Hans Woellke (1911), Gustav Flatow (1875), Myer Prinstein (1878), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), and Janusz Kusociński (1907). After him are Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), Ursula Happe (1926), Józef Szmidt (1935), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Teresa Ciepły (1937), and Halina Górecka (1938).