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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 44,759 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gerhard Stöck is the 486th most popular athlete (down from 258th in 2019), the 927th most popular biography from Poland (down from 773rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gerhard Stöck ranks 486 out of 6,025. Before him are Emiel Puttemans, Eddie Owen, Christian d'Oriola, Delfo Cabrera, Helena Fibingerová, and Udo Beyer. After him are Annelie Ehrhardt, Alfred Schmidt, Charley Borah, Håkon Brusveen, Glenn Morris, and Joël Robert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Gerhard Stöck ranks 233. Before him are Mervyn Peake, Romeu Pellicciari, Brigitte Horney, Mario Perazzolo, István Bibó, and Grote Reber. After him are David Seymour, Leen Vente, Paris Pişmiş, Gyula Lázár, Giuseppe Olmo, and Reg Parnell. Among people deceased in 1985, Gerhard Stöck ranks 163. Before him are Viorica Ursuleac, Jules Vandooren, Big Joe Turner, Arkady Fiedler, Renato Olmi, and Enrique Fernández Viola. After him are Jetta Goudal, Givi Javakhishvili, Marie Bell, Nicolas Hoydonckx, Natalio Perinetti, and Carlos Spadaro.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Gerhard Stöck ranks 927 out of 1,694. Before him are Florian Ceynowa (1817), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Tomasz Stańko (1942), Heinz Hopf (1894), and Arkadiusz Milik (1994). After him are Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Boris Chertok (1912), David Seymour (1911), Danuta Siedzikówna (1928), and Julius Hübner (1806).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Gerhard Stöck ranks 7. Before him are Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Hans Woellke (1911), Gustav Flatow (1875), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Myer Prinstein (1878), and Janusz Kusociński (1907). After him are Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Ursula Happe (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Józef Szmidt (1935), and Teresa Ciepły (1937).

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