CYCLIST

Gösta Pettersson

1940 - Today

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Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum brothers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gösta Pettersson has received more than 37,861 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Gösta Pettersson is the 66th most popular cyclist (down from 55th in 2019), the 439th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 435th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Cyclist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 38k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gösta Petterssons by language

Over the past year Gösta Pettersson has had the most page views in the with 7,446 views, followed by English (3,909), and Italian (3,093). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (47.29%), Persian (31.88%), and Swedish (14.94%)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Gösta Pettersson ranks 66 out of 1,613. Before him are Stan Ockers, Maurice De Waele, Bjarne Riis, André Leducq, Bernard Thévenet, and Lucien Aimar. After him are Greg LeMond, Luigi Ganna, Maurice Peeters, Jan Ullrich, Hennie Kuiper, and Paolo Pedretti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gösta Pettersson ranks 231. Before him are Kishin Shinoyama, Quentin Skinner, Hiroshi Katayama, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Larry Hankin, and Peter Mutharika. After him are Yozhef Sabo, Jesús López Cobos, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Pharoah Sanders, Bob Hewitt, and Peter Benchley.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Pettersson ranks 439 out of 1,879. Before him are Eugène Jansson (1862), Emma Wiklund (1968), Johan David Åkerblad (1763), Gunnar Ekelöf (1907), Odd Nerdrum (1944), and Jan Johansson (1931). After him are Estrid of the Obotrites (979), Greta Thunberg (2003), Victoria Silvstedt (1974), Conny Torstensson (1949), Sophie Adlersparre (1823), and E-Type (1965).

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Among CYCLISTS In Sweden

Among cyclists born in Sweden, Gösta Pettersson ranks 1. After him are Erik Pettersson (1944), Bernhard Britz (1906), Tomas Pettersson (1947), Bernt Johansson (1953), Magnus Bäckstedt (1975), Gustav Larsson (1980), Michel Lafis (1967), Fredrik Kessiakoff (1980), Jan Karlsson (1966), Emma Johansson (1983), and Susanne Ljungskog (1976).

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