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Gustaf Jansson

1922 - 2012

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Gustaf Nils Jansson (5 January 1922 – 11 April 2012) was a Swedish long-distance runner who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustaf Jansson has received more than 14,456 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustaf Jansson is the 1,160th most popular athlete (down from 748th in 2019), the 945th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 802nd in 2019) and the 69th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gustaf Jansson ranks 1,160 out of 6,025. Before him are German Sveshnikov, Jay Silvester, Gunnar Åkerlund, Paul Barth, Per Ivar Moe, and Tarjei Bø. After him are Paul Drayton, Giorgio Chiavacci, Johannes van Dijk, Joseph Dempsey, Jan Johansen, and Jiří Havlis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Gustaf Jansson ranks 356. Before him are Grace Paley, Irina Antonova, Herbert MacKay-Fraser, Umberto Betti, Georgy Adelson-Velsky, and Melvin Laird. After him are Lukas Foss, Rudolf Haag, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Jim Pollard, Milton H. Greene, and Don Patinkin. Among people deceased in 2012, Gustaf Jansson ranks 359. Before him are Oscar Rossi, Sergey Nikolsky, András Szente, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Barbara Ann Scott, and Rufina Gasheva. After him are Rosy Varte, Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Aldo Maldera, Théophile Abega, Steve Franken, and Jenni Rivera.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gustaf Jansson ranks 945 out of 1,879. Before him are Roland Nilsson (1963), Axel Janse (1888), Gunnel Vallquist (1918), Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894), Gunnar Åkerlund (1923), and Jonas Björkman (1972). After him are Axel Grönberg (1918), Wollmar Boström (1878), Hans Wetterström (1923), Bertil Roos (1943), Cecilia Malmström (1968), and Erik Adlerz (1892).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Gustaf Jansson ranks 69. Before him are Ulf Sterner (1941), William Grut (1914), Lars Hall (1927), Bruno Söderström (1881), Birger Sörvik (1879), and Gunnar Åkerlund (1923). After him are Hans Wetterström (1923), Erik Adlerz (1892), Ruth Svedberg (1903), Eric Carlberg (1880), Anna-Lisa Eriksson (1928), and Emil Magnusson (1887).

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