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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hideko Maehata has received more than 31,933 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hideko Maehata is the 124th most popular swimmer (down from 50th in 2019), the 1,574th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,298th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Hideko Maehata ranks 124 out of 709. Before her are Jean Taris, Ada Kok, Jeannette Campbell, Gunnar Larsson, Otto Fahr, and Sharon Stouder. After her are Joyce Cooper, Thelma Kalama, Perry McGillivray, Ulrike Richter, Julius Frey, and Clare Dennis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Hideko Maehata ranks 368. Before her are Geoffrey Unsworth, John Hodiak, Mauk Weber, Josef Peters, Andrea Leeds, and Erich Herrmann. After her are Severino Rigoni, David Carstens, Franz Bistricky, Renzo Nostini, Akhtar Hameed Khan, and Grete Mostny. Among people deceased in 1995, Hideko Maehata ranks 290. Before her are Achmad Nawir, Patsy Ruth Miller, Johnny Moss, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Trevor Blokdyk, and Red Amick. After her are Todor Diev, Víctor Peralta, Les Aspin, József Bencsics, Róbert Antal, and Eeva-Liisa Manner.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideko Maehata ranks 1,574 out of 6,245. Before her are Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Yahiro Kazama (1961), Takayoshi Yamano (1955), Mika Nakashima (1983), Keiko Matsui (1961), and Keiko Saito (1965). After her are Chiaki Yamada (1966), Jiichiro Date (1952), Mami Kaneda (1968), Daisuke Namikawa (1976), Masanori Yusa (1915), and Seishi Kishimoto (1974).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Hideko Maehata ranks 5. Before her are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), Shigeo Arai (1916), Kusuo Kitamura (1917), and Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903). After her are Shiro Hashizume (1928), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Daiya Seto (1994), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Ryosuke Irie (1990).

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