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Henry Petersen

1900 - 1949

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Henry Petersen (1 October 1900 – 24 September 1949) was a Danish athlete. He competed in the pole vault at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1920, placing fourth in 1924. Petersen won the national pole vault title in 1920–21, 1923 and 1925–27 and improved the national record eight times from 3.69 m in 1919 to 4.03 m in 1925. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Petersen has received more than 12,557 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Petersen is the 972nd most popular athlete (down from 666th in 2019), the 537th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 483rd in 2019) and the 11th most popular Danish Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Henry Petersens by language

Over the past year Henry Petersen has had the most page views in the with 1,041 views, followed by Danish (425), and Mongolian (362). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Arabic (58.72%), Egyptian Arabic (33.96%), and Persian (20.10%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Henry Petersen ranks 972 out of 6,025. Before him are Johanna Klier, Ferdinand Kiefler, Veli Saarinen, Paavo Yrjölä, Marjorie Clark, and Edward Gardère. After him are Hadi Choopan, Hugo Simon, Mikhail Krivonosov, Émile Fisseux, Lajos Gönczy, and Andreas Cervin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Henry Petersen ranks 254. Before him are Simon Janashia, Colin Clive, Malvina Reynolds, Jacques Moeschal, David Hand, and Josip Primožič. After him are Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Roman Steinberg, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Carlos Hevia, Franz Dienert, and Gaetano Martino. Among people deceased in 1949, Henry Petersen ranks 156. Before him are John Neville Keynes, Bill Robinson, Sevasti Qiriazi, Gregory Mathews, George Larner, and Clarence Kingsbury. After him are Linda Arvidson, Nils Östensson, Birbal Sahni, Leon Schlesinger, J. Searle Dawley, and William Henry Dean.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Henry Petersen ranks 537 out of 1,032. Before him are Michael Rasmussen (1974), Mogens Frey (1941), Halfdan T. Mahler (1923), Hans Aabech (1948), Kasper Hjulmand (1972), and Joachim Trier (1974). After him are Pilou Asbæk (1982), Margrete Auken (1945), Jens Jørgen Hansen (1939), Johannes Schmidt (1877), Ritt Bjerregaard (1941), and Hans Scherfig (1905).

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Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Henry Petersen ranks 11. Before him are Lis Hartel (1921), Charles Winckler (1867), Ernst Schultz (1879), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Karen Hoff (1921), and Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899). After him are Kurt Helmudt (1943), Lars Jørgen Madsen (1871), Finn Haunstoft (1928), Erik Hansen (1939), Lily Carlstedt (1926), and John Hansen (1938).

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