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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 12,628 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Petersen is the 666th most popular athlete (down from 520th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 450th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Danish Athlete.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.25

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Henry Petersen ranks 666 out of 3,059. Before him are Piero D'Inzeo, Hans Berglund, Gabriele Reinsch, Sulo Nurmela, Halina Górecka, and Kristin Otto. After him are Adalberts Bubenko, Glenn Hardin, Yelena Gorchakova, Aleksandr Baryshnikov, Pino Dordoni, and Gunder Hägg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Henry Petersen ranks 241. Before him are Christian Matras, Simon Janashia, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Panagiotis Pavlidis, and Zenón Noriega Agüero. After him are Hélène Prévost, Lőrinc Szabó, Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Alice Calhoun, and Pedro Ochoa. Among people deceased in 1949, Henry Petersen ranks 145. Before him are Eusebio Castigliano, Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols, Fedor Ozep, Bill Robinson, František Halas, and Karel Petrů. After him are Robert Ripley, J. Searle Dawley, Leon Schlesinger, Karolina Widerström, Herbert Stothart, and François Brandt.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Henry Petersen ranks 485 out of 893. Before him are Chris Anker Sørensen (1984), Christian Albrecht Bluhme (1794), Hugo Egmont Hørring (1842), Christen Andreas Fonnesbech (1817), Tom Kristensen (1967), and Daniel Agger (1984). After him are Hans Scherfig (1905), Holger Juul Hansen (1924), Lauritz Melchior (1890), Ebbe Sand (1972), Dennis Rommedahl (1978), and Villy Sørensen (1929).

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Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Henry Petersen ranks 10. Before him are Lis Hartel (1921), Karen Harup (1924), Charles Winckler (1867), Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899), Karen Hoff (1921), and Ernst Schultz (1879). After him are Lars Jørgen Madsen (1871), Finn Pedersen (1925), Lily Carlstedt (1926), Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922), Anders Peter Nielsen (1867), and Niels Fredborg (1946).

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