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Gottfried Diener

1926 - 2015

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Gottfried Diener (November 1, 1926 – May 26, 2015) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the mid-1950s. He won the gold medal in the four-man event at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo. Diener also won two gold medals in the four-man event at the FIBT World Championships, winning them in 1954 and 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried Diener has received more than 12,371 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gottfried Diener is the 239th most popular athlete (up from 1,269th in 2019), the 350th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 579th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swiss Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gottfried Diener ranks 239 out of 6,025Before him are Karin Balzer, Otto Herschmann, Natalya Lisovskaya, Janusz Kusociński, Michael Johnson, and Éva Székely. After him are Karl Staaf, August Nilsson, Ethel Smith, BIA, Romuald Klim, and Joanni Perronet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Gottfried Diener ranks 227Before him are Peter Lax, Friedrich Cerha, Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Lu'ay al-Atassi, Judith Malina, and Julie London. After him are Ray Brown, David C. H. Austin, Lenny Montana, Julio César Britos, Arnošt Lustig, and Jon Vickers. Among people deceased in 2015, Gottfried Diener ranks 180Before him are Fred Anton Maier, Tignous, Guy Béart, Moira Orfei, Xu Caihou, and Judith Malina. After him are Movita Castaneda, Søren Kam, Evelyn Furtsch, Hans Erni, Clark Terry, and Michael Graves.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Gottfried Diener ranks 350 out of 1,015Before him are Maximilian Ulysses Browne (1705), Liselotte Pulver (1929), Isaac Casaubon (1559), Bertrand Piccard (1958), Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (1956), and François Le Fort (1656). After him are Klaus Huber (1924), Ella Maillart (1903), Urs Graf (1485), Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777), Albert Heim (1849), and Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829).

Among ATHLETES In Switzerland

Among athletes born in Switzerland, Gottfried Diener ranks 5Before him are Diego Garcia (null), Marina Doria (1935), Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), and Pierre Musy (1910). After him are Joseph Benz (1944), Robert Alt (1927), Hermann Barrelet (1879), Konrad Stäheli (1931), Charles Bouvier (1898), Werner Günthör (1961), and Emil Kellenberger (1864).