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Grete Waitz

1953 - 2011

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Grete Waitz (née Andersen, 1 October 1953 – 19 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz won nine New York City Marathons, women's division, between 1978 and 1988, the highest number of victories in a single big city marathon in history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grete Waitz has received more than 294,738 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Grete Waitz is the 595th most popular athlete (down from 193rd in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Norway (down from 224th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Norwegian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Grete Waitz ranks 595 out of 3,059Before her are Gunnar Lindström, Eero Berg, Ernst Schultz, Eero Lehtonen, Paul Van Asbroeck, and Leo Sexton. After her are Louis Wilkins, Rune Larsson, Mihaela Peneș, Teresa Ciepły, Carl Johnson, and Gustaf Söderström.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Grete Waitz ranks 304Before her are Kvitka Cisyk, Peter Firth, Ana Botella, Stu Ungar, Robert Guédiguian, and Luciana Lamorgese. After her are Nicolas Schmit, Branko Milanović, George Tenet, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Ján Babjak, and Günther Oettinger. Among people deceased in 2011, Grete Waitz ranks 301Before her are Ferenc Szojka, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Shrilal Shukla, Leonid Abalkin, Ilmar Kullam, and Ken Olsen. After her are Milton Babbitt, Juan Tuñas, George Cadle Price, Szeto Wah, Nat Lofthouse, and Ulrich Biesinger.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Grete Waitz ranks 310 out of 927Before her are Inger Aufles (1941), Hulda Garborg (1862), Rolf Løvland (1955), Molla Mallory (1884), Johan Falkberget (1879), and Morten Tyldum (1967). After her are Ivar Formo (1951), Egil Olsen (1942), Anders Haugen (1888), Anita Hegerland (1961), Sverre Hansen (1913), and Isak Saba (1875).

Among ATHLETES In Norway

Among athletes born in Norway, Grete Waitz ranks 14Before her are Håkon Brusveen (1927), Magnar Solberg (1937), Hallgeir Brenden (1929), Berit Mørdre (1940), Gjermund Eggen (1941), and Sverre Stenersen (1926). After her are Halvard Hanevold (1969), Ferdinand Bie (1888), Yngvar Bryn (1881), Audun Boysen (1929), Charles Mathiesen (1911), and Babben Enger-Damon (1939).