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Hal Connolly

1931 - 2010

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Harold Vincent "Hal" Connolly (August 1, 1931 – August 18, 2010) was an American athlete and hammer thrower from Somerville, Massachusetts. He won a gold medal in the hammer throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Connolly became the first American to throw hammer more than 200 feet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hal Connolly has received more than 69,544 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Hal Connolly is the 588th most popular athlete (down from 202nd in 2019), the 7,061st most popular biography from United States (down from 4,634th in 2019) and the 125th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hal Connolly ranks 588 out of 3,059Before him are Igor Novikov, Ingemar Johansson, Hélène de Pourtalès, Dorothea Wierer, Cornelius Johnson, and Valerio Arri. After him are Gunnar Lindström, Eero Berg, Ernst Schultz, Eero Lehtonen, Paul Van Asbroeck, and Leo Sexton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Hal Connolly ranks 378Before him are Skeeter Davis, Olja Ivanjicki, Roger Planchon, Vasily Rudenkov, John Zizioulas, and Suchitra Sen. After him are Peter Gilmore, Chiharu Igaya, Ferry Graf, Nelly Kaplan, Szeto Wah, and Giuliana Minuzzo. Among people deceased in 2010, Hal Connolly ranks 279Before him are Boris Tishchenko, Pedro Dellacha, István Bilek, Clarke Scholes, Nino Defilippis, and Maury Chaykin. After him are Chushiro Hayashi, Edoardo Sanguineti, Vladimir Maslachenko, Ángel Cabrera, Ilene Woods, and William Tenn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hal Connolly ranks 7,061 out of 18,182Before him are Robert L. Eichelberger (1886), Jenny Slate (1982), Warren E. Burger (1907), Lillian Disney (1899), May McAvoy (1899), and Ernie Pyle (1900). After him are Alex Raymond (1909), Joseph Mazzello (1983), Candace Bushnell (1958), Megan Boone (1983), William S. Hart (1864), and Little Crow (1810).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Hal Connolly ranks 125Before him are Charles Reidpath (1889), Fred Alderman (1905), Morgan Taylor (1903), Fred Hansen (1940), Hélène de Pourtalès (1868), and Cornelius Johnson (1913). After him are Leo Sexton (1909), Louis Wilkins (1882), Carl Johnson (1898), Alan Helffrich (1900), Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909), and Paul Anderson (1932).