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Gunder Hägg

1918 - 2004

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Gunder Hägg (31 December 1918 – 27 November 2004) was a Swedish runner and multiple world record breaker of the 1940s. He set over a dozen middle distance world records at events ranging from 1500 to 5000 meters, including three at both the 1500 meters and the mile, one at 3000 meters and one at 5000 meters. Hägg and fellow Swede, Arne Andersson, lowered the record for the mile to just over four minutes (4:01.4) – accelerating the progression of the world record in the mile run. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunder Hägg has received more than 81,690 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunder Hägg is the 672nd most popular athlete (down from 343rd in 2019), the 768th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 581st in 2019) and the 46th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gunder Hägg ranks 672 out of 3,059. Before him are Henry Petersen, Adalberts Bubenko, Glenn Hardin, Yelena Gorchakova, Aleksandr Baryshnikov, and Pino Dordoni. After him are Yevhen Arzhanov, Hiroshi Suzuki, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Hussein Ahmed Salah, Yurik Vardanyan, and Adolf Wiklund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Gunder Hägg ranks 219. Before him are Kumar Pallana, Madeleine L'Engle, Vicente de la Mata, Yevgeniya Sechenova, Hans Berglund, and Luis Alcoriza. After him are Renée Faure, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Mahmoud Namjoo, Donald Regan, Yelizaveta Chaikina, and Don McNeill. Among people deceased in 2004, Gunder Hägg ranks 221. Before him are Isabel Sanford, Albert Mol, Fred Ramdat Misier, Jiří Weiss, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, and José Luis Cuciuffo. After him are Mikhail Voronin, Anna Lee, Guinn Smith, Yordan Radichkov, Mochtar Lubis, and Zurab Sakandelidze.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunder Hägg ranks 768 out of 1,612. Before him are Ove Grahn (1943), May-Louise Flodin (1934), Hans Berglund (1918), Johan Ramstedt (1852), Charlotte Perrelli (1974), and Ferdinand Boberg (1860). After him are Åke Borg (1901), Lukas Moodysson (1969), Inga Tidblad (1901), Per Olof Sundman (1922), Adolf Wiklund (1921), and Gudrun Schyman (1948).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Gunder Hägg ranks 46. Before him are Magdalena Forsberg (1967), Johan Jarlén (1880), Nils Engdahl (1898), Erik Larsson (1912), Gustaf Lindblom (1891), and Hans Berglund (1918). After him are Adolf Wiklund (1921), John Svanberg (1881), William Grut (1914), Erik Almlöf (1891), Birger Sörvik (1879), and Kjell Bäckman (1934).

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