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Hideko Maehata

1914 - 1995

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Hideko Maehata (前畑 秀子, Maehata Hideko, May 20, 1914 – February 24, 1995) was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer and the first Japanese woman to earn a gold medal in the Olympics.Maehata was born in Hashimoto, Wakayama, as the daughter of a tofu producer and as a child learned to swim in the Kinokawa River. In the fifth grade of elementary school, she set an unofficial youth record for the 50-meter breaststroke. She went on to win numerous competitions, and was sponsored to attend a women’s boarding school in Nagoya which specialized in swimming, but the sudden death of her parents in 1931 forced her return home. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideko Maehata has received more than 29,315 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Hideko Maehata is the 50th most popular swimmer (down from 35th in 2019), the 1,301st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,129th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Hideko Maehata ranks 50 out of 392Before her are Jimmy McLane, Max Hainle, Nel van Vliet, Julius Frey, Matt Biondi, and Shigeo Arai. After her are Emil Rausch, Barbara Krause, Martha Norelius, Irene Guest, Bill Smith, and Aileen Riggin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Hideko Maehata ranks 300Before her are Mustafa Mansour, Robert R. Wilson, Rolf Holmberg, Robert Alda, Sven Fahlman, and Oktay Rıfat Horozcu. After her are Bruce M. Metzger, Estelle Reiner, Josef Peters, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Severino Rigoni, and Louis Chaillot. Among people deceased in 1995, Hideko Maehata ranks 244Before her are Karl Warner, Benjamin Mazar, Phil Harris, René Bader, Prawitz Öberg, and Joe Slovo. After her are Johnny Moss, Víctor Ugarte, Riccardo Carapellese, Stig Sjölin, George Woodcock, and Iosif Kheifits.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideko Maehata ranks 1,301 out of 6,048Before her are Ichiya Kumagae (1890), Kamui Kobayashi (1986), Takehide Nakatani (1941), Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949), and Shigeo Arai (1916). After her are Noriyuki Abe (1961), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Daisuke Namikawa (1976), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), Yoshiko Tanaka (1956), and Kazuaki Nagasawa (1958).

Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Hideko Maehata ranks 4Before her are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), Kusuo Kitamura (1917), and Shigeo Arai (1916). After her are Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Daiya Seto (1994), Ryosuke Irie (1990), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Takeshi Matsuda (1984).