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Helene Madison

1913 - 1970

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Helene Emma Madison (June 19, 1913 – November 27, 1970) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder. Madison won three gold medals in freestyle event at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming, along with Romeo Neri of Italy, the most successful athlete at the 1932 Olympics: women's 100-meter freestyle, 400-meter freestyle, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay. In sixteen months in 1930 and 1931, she broke sixteen world records in various distances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helene Madison has received more than 60,260 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Helene Madison is the 72nd most popular swimmer (down from 28th in 2019), the 8,027th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,803rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular American Swimmer.

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  • 60k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Helene Madison ranks 72 out of 709. Before her are Cathy Ferguson, Ragnhild Hveger, Bill Smith, Pontus Hanson, Chris von Saltza, and Norman Ross. After her are Tini Wagner, Imre Zachár, Margaret Woodbridge, Maria Vierdag, Tetsuo Okamoto, and Matt Biondi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Helene Madison ranks 299. Before her are Giorgio Bocchino, Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, Claude Renoir, Walter Winterbottom, Nikolai Stepulov, and Ferdinand Kiefler. After her are Georges Spénale, Vojtěch Bradáč, Adrian Quist, Jiří Weiss, Lynn Bari, and Joe Simon. Among people deceased in 1970, Helene Madison ranks 216. Before her are Karel Pešek, Alexandros Chalkokondylis, Fritz von Unruh, Alexandros Othonaios, Daniel Kinsey, and Leopoldo Conti. After her are Lev Kassil, Anita Louise, Sean Flynn, Otis Spann, John Beazley, and Matthias Heidemann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helene Madison ranks 8,027 out of 20,380. Before her are Lyle Mays (1953), Robert Ridgway (1850), Derek Sherinian (1966), Adam McKay (1968), Kay Francis (1905), and Nelson W. Aldrich (1841). After her are Gerald R. Molen (1935), Richard Hell (1949), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), Bill O'Reilly (1949), Madeline Miller (1978), and Johnny Dodds (1892).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Helene Madison ranks 28. Before her are Ford Konno (1933), Lynn Burke (1943), Cathy Ferguson (1948), Bill Smith (1924), Chris von Saltza (1944), and Norman Ross (1895). After her are Margaret Woodbridge (1902), Matt Biondi (1965), Melissa Belote (1956), Don McKenzie (1947), David Hammond (1881), and Eleanor Garatti (1909).

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