SWIMMER

Gunnar Larsson

1951 - Today

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Karl Gunnar Larsson (born 12 May 1951) is a former swimmer from Sweden. He won the 400 metre individual medley event at the 1972 Summer Olympics by two one-thousandths (0.002) of a second over American Tim McKee, breaking the Olympic record. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunnar Larsson has received more than 4,535 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gunnar Larsson is the 121st most popular swimmer (down from 89th in 2019), the 1,090th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 1,031st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Swimmer.

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  • 43.72

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Gunnar Larsson ranks 121 out of 709. Before him are Oscar Grégoire, Faith Leech, Jim Montgomery, Jean Taris, Ada Kok, and Jeannette Campbell. After him are Otto Fahr, Sharon Stouder, Hideko Maehata, Joyce Cooper, Thelma Kalama, and Perry McGillivray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Gunnar Larsson ranks 519. Before him are John L. Phillips, Brad Delp, Pamela Bellwood, Robin Sachs, Claude Bartolone, and Mohamed Ben Rehaiem. After him are Mohammad Reza Aref, Helen Shaver, Gyula Sax, Ria Stalman, Demetrios Christodoulou, and Nedim Gürsel.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Larsson ranks 1,090 out of 1,879. Before him are Jan Möller (1953), Bo Ekelund (1894), Michael Amott (1969), Karin Alvtegen (1965), Magnus Norman (1976), and Roger Ljung (1966). After him are Stig Sollander (1926), Jan Jönsson (1960), Teddy Lučić (1973), Håkan Loob (1960), Axwell (1977), and Tomas Pettersson (1947).

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Among SWIMMERS In Sweden

Among swimmers born in Sweden, Gunnar Larsson ranks 6. Before him are Arne Borg (1901), Greta Johansson (1895), Martha Norelius (1909), Pontus Hanson (1884), and Åke Borg (1901). After him are Sarah Sjöström (1993), Therese Alshammar (1977), Bengt Baron (1962), Lars Frölander (1974), Anders Holmertz (1968), and Sara Nordenstam (1983).

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