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Heike Friedrich

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Heike Friedrich (born 18 April 1970 in Karl-Marx-Stadt, Saxony) is a former freestyle swimmer from East Germany, who won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. At the age of 15, Friedrich won five gold medals in the 1985 European championships and won four more in the World Championship the next year. She had not lost in a single major international championship in any event until she was defeated by Janet Evans in the 400 m in the Seoul Olympics, taking the silver medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heike Friedrich has received more than 32,627 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Heike Friedrich is the 284th most popular swimmer (down from 165th in 2019), the 6,300th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,362nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Swimmer.

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  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Heike Friedrich ranks 284 out of 709. Before her are Giaan Rooney, Rebecca Soni, Dagmar Hase, Beverley Whitfield, Petra Schneider, and John Naber. After her are Mike O'Brien, Yoshi Oyakawa, Sándor Wladár, Sandra Morgan, Igor Polyansky, and Alex Baumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Heike Friedrich ranks 773. Before her are Martin Müller, Joyce Chepchumba, Fredrik Thordendal, Marc-Kevin Goellner, Fumitake Miura, and Mark Kirchner. After her are Yu Sun-bok, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Gaia Zucchi, Walt Dohrn, Sergei Mureiko, and Brenda Schultz-McCarthy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heike Friedrich ranks 6,300 out of 7,253. Before her are Feleknas Uca (1976), Petra Schneider (1963), Katherine Freese (1957), Jan Böhmermann (1981), Mark Kirchner (1970), and Hagen Melzer (1959). After her are Janis Blaswich (1991), Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (1968), Max Mutzke (1981), Jens-Peter Herold (1965), Ferydoon Zandi (1979), and Olaf Hampel (1965).

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Among SWIMMERS In Germany

Among swimmers born in Germany, Heike Friedrich ranks 34. Before her are Silke Hörner (1965), Uwe Dassler (1967), Britta Steffen (1983), Thomas Lurz (1979), Dagmar Hase (1969), and Petra Schneider (1963). After her are Daniela Hunger (1972), Manuela Stellmach (1970), Lukas Märtens (2001), Katrin Meissner (1973), Florian Wellbrock (1997), and Sandra Völker (1974).

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