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Harald Norpoth

1942 - Today

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Harald Norpoth (born 22 August 1942) is a West German former middle and long distance runner. He won the silver medal over 5000 m at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a member of the United Team of Germany. He had already competed in the 1962 European Athletics Championships, where he had fallen and dropped out of the 1500 m final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harald Norpoth has received more than 30,941 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Harald Norpoth is the 1,436th most popular athlete (up from 1,514th in 2019), the 5,311th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,900th in 2019) and the 121st most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Harald Norpoth ranks 1,436 out of 6,025Before him are Erik Algot Fredriksson, Gustaf Lindblom, Václav Mottl, Zoltán Nemere, Toimi Alatalo, and Bertha Brouwer. After him are Peter Kemp, Olga Bondarenko, Alberto Winkler, Alma Richards, Steve Ovett, and Géza Csapó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Harald Norpoth ranks 606Before him are Gideon Toury, Walter Rodney, Lopo do Nascimento, Gabriel Núñez, Bob Foster, and Zoltán Nemere. After him are Glyn Johns, Charlie Rose, Barbara Parkins, Marianna Hill, Aníbal Ruiz, and Ksenia Milicevic.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Harald Norpoth ranks 5,311 out of 7,253Before him are Caspar Memering (1953), Matthias Platzeck (1953), Anaid Iplicjian (1935), Harald Schmidt (1957), Andrea Berg (1966), and Silke Möller (1964). After him are Tommy Haas (1978), Manfred Schnelldorfer (1943), Kurt Thomas (1904), Jutta Heine (1940), Marcell Jansen (1985), and Brigitte Zypries (1953).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Harald Norpoth ranks 121Before him are Hartwig Gauder (1954), Bernd Cullmann (1939), Liselott Linsenhoff (1927), Siegrun Siegl (1954), Otto Fickeisen (1879), and Hans Liesche (1891). After him are Jutta Heine (1940), Horst Meyer (1941), Paul Günther (1882), Hermann Hansen (1912), Wolfgang Schmidt (1954), and Erwin Casmir (1895).