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Halina Konopacka

1900 - 1989

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Halina Konopacka (Leonarda Kazimiera Konopacka-Matuszewska-Szczerbińska) (26 February 1900 – 28 January 1989) was a Polish athlete. She won the discus throw event at the 1928 Summer Olympics, defeating American silver medal winner Lillian Copeland, breaking her own world record, and becoming the first Polish Olympic champion. After retiring from athletics she became a writer and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halina Konopacka has received more than 52,658 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Halina Konopacka is the 3,880th most popular writer (down from 3,194th in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from Poland (down from 660th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Halina Konopacka ranks 3,880 out of 5,755Before her are Joan Alcover, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, David Allen, Francis Beaumont, Matilde Serao, and Hafez Ibrahim. After her are Margit Kaffka, Alexander Volkov, Simon Vestdijk, Dušan Kovačević, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, and Lajos Bíró.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Halina Konopacka ranks 181Before her are Giovanni Urbani, Pavel Kurochkin, Jean Duvieusart, Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, Vladimir Tributs, and Edward Stettinius Jr.. After her are Maurice Dobb, Taylor Caldwell, Bruno Apitz, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Itzik Feffer, and Masujiro Nishida. Among people deceased in 1989, Halina Konopacka ranks 160Before her are Pavel Kurochkin, Veniamin Kaverin, Yasushi Akutagawa, José Bustamante y Rivero, Harald Edelstam, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. After her are Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Gilles Andriamahazo, Nikolai Grinko, René Petit, Nils Axelsson, and Sándor Weöres.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Halina Konopacka ranks 787 out of 1,454Before her are Basia (1954), Aleksander Kakowski (1862), Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Michał Heller (1936), and Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985). After her are Albert Chmielowski (1846), Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), Leon Wyczółkowski (1852), Radosław Sikorski (1963), Henryk Sławik (1894), and Nathan Alterman (1910).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Halina Konopacka ranks 97Before her are Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Jurek Becker (1937), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919). After her are Nathan Alterman (1910), Jan Kott (1914), Arkady Fiedler (1894), Arno Holz (1863), Anna Langfus (1920), and Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922).