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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 55,832 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Helene Madison is the 28th most popular swimmer, the 6,817th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,442nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Swimmer.

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  • 56k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Helene Madison ranks 28 out of 392. Before her are Charles Daniels, Katalin Szőke, Greta Johansson, Oleksandr Sydorenko, Henry Taylor, and Frederick Lane. After her are Kusuo Kitamura, Clarke Scholes, Ferenc Csik, Ian Thorpe, George Hodgson, and Max Schöne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Helene Madison ranks 241. Before her are Sándor Tarics, Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Ed Ablowich, Ken Carpenter, Tibor Kemény, and Franz Brunner. After her are Claude Renoir, Mary Martin, Anni Steuer, Ruth Smith, Taos Amrouche, and Hans-Peter Tschudi. Among people deceased in 1970, Helene Madison ranks 187. Before her are Vano Muradeli, Andrejs Upīts, John O'Hara, István Kozma, Fritz von Unruh, and Lee Barnes. After her are William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Ludovico Bidoglio, Valerio Arri, Adam Rapacki, Karel Pešek, and Shoichi Sakata.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helene Madison ranks 6,817 out of 18,182. Before her are Daniel Pearl (1963), David Ray Griffin (1939), Louis Clarke (1901), Akebono Tarō (1969), Joanna Russ (1937), and Will Wright (1960). After her are Charles P. Kindleberger (1910), Michael Chapman (1935), Marilyn Miller (1898), Jenny McCarthy (1972), Al Ernest Garcia (1887), and Marion Donovan (1917).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Helene Madison ranks 9. Before her are Gertrude Ederle (1905), Duke Kahanamoku (1890), Don Schollander (1946), Ann Curtis (1926), Ethelda Bleibtrey (1902), and Charles Daniels (1885). After her are Clarke Scholes (1930), Albina Osipowich (1911), Helen Johns (1914), Jimmy McLane (1930), Matt Biondi (1965), and Irene Guest (1900).

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