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Hélène de Pourtalès

1868 - 1945

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Countess Hélène de Pourtalès (born Helen Barbey; April 28, 1868 – November 2, 1945) was an American-born Swiss sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris representing Switzerland and became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hélène de Pourtalès has received more than 90,191 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hélène de Pourtalès is the 898th most popular athlete (down from 584th in 2019), the 7,791st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,028th in 2019) and the 191st most popular American Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

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  • 46.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hélène de Pourtalès ranks 898 out of 6,025. Before her are Arnie Robinson, John Norton, Ivar Aronsson, Daniel Kinsey, Gyula Török, and Olaf Hoffsbakken. After her are Peter Kirby, István Szondy, Jack Beresford, Jörg Lucke, Désiré Beaurain, and Lien Gisolf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Hélène de Pourtalès ranks 174. Before her are Achille Paroche, José Serrato, Edward Abramowski, Kitamura Tokoku, Charles Wallace Richmond, and Hermann Lietz. After her are Grace Chisholm Young, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Émile Fisseux, Karl Röderer, Harvey S. Firestone, and Annie S. D. Maunder. Among people deceased in 1945, Hélène de Pourtalès ranks 314. Before her are Jesús Bermúdez, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Paolo Salvi, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Vikenty Veresaev, and John Bray. After her are Anders Larsson, Giovanni Palatucci, Kazimierz Prószyński, Adolf Bartels, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, and Kārlis Skalbe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hélène de Pourtalès ranks 7,791 out of 20,380. Before her are Joseph Paul Franklin (1950), Charles Bassett (1931), John Lipsky (1947), Billy Cunningham (1943), Willard Scott (1934), and Dorothy Cheney (1916). After her are Esther Phillips (1935), DeWitt Clinton (1769), Kyle Gass (1960), David Brown (1916), John Jacob Abel (1857), and Sean Gunn (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Hélène de Pourtalès ranks 191. Before her are Ivan Fuqua (1909), Bill Carr (1909), Sabin Carr (1904), Arnie Robinson (1948), John Norton (1893), and Daniel Kinsey (1902). After her are Paul Costello (1894), Oliver Macdonald (1904), Donald Johnston (1899), Armand Duplantis (1999), Frank Wykoff (1909), and Charles Moore (1929).

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