New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ATHLETE

Ilmari Salminen

1902 - 1986

Photo of Ilmari Salminen

Icon of person Ilmari Salminen

Ilmari R. Salminen (21 September 1902 – 5 January 1986) was a Finnish long-distance runner, winner of the 10,000 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.Salminen became one of the best long-distance runners in the 1930s when he began his international athletics career in 1934 by winning the 10,000 m and taking bronze in 5000 m at the first European Championships in Turin, thus becoming a main favorite at the Olympic 10,000 m run.On the first day of competitions in the Berlin Olympics, Salminen won the 10,000 m final before compatriots Arvo Askola and Volmari Iso-Hollo. Salminen managed to hold off Askola by a margin of 0.2 seconds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ilmari Salminen has received more than 26,769 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ilmari Salminen is the 229th most popular athlete (down from 146th in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from Finland (down from 120th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Finnish Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ilmari Salminens by language


Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ilmari Salminen ranks 229 out of 3,059Before him are Leonid Zhabotinsky, Armas Taipale, Dragutin Šurbek, Micheline Ostermeyer, Francis Lane, and Georg Åberg. After him are Fred Kelly, Frederick Lorz, Ion Drîmbă, Hans Günter Winkler, Harald Grønningen, and Mykola Avilov.

Most Popular Athletes in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ilmari Salminen ranks 180Before him are Juan Evaristo, Bobby Jones, Strom Thurmond, Andrés Mazali, George Kingsley Zipf, and Son House. After him are André Patry, Georgette Heyer, Yevgeny Petrov, Yakov Smushkevich, Beryl Markham, and Flora Robson. Among people deceased in 1986, Ilmari Salminen ranks 136Before him are Roy Cohn, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Hank Mobley, Adolfo Baloncieri, W. Averell Harriman, and Broderick Crawford. After him are Harald Reinl, Fumiko Enchi, Lars-Erik Larsson, Gaston Defferre, Beryl Markham, and Ernst Lehner.

Others Born in 1902

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1986

Go to all Rankings

In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Ilmari Salminen ranks 160 out of 642Before him are Paavo Berglund (1929), Tapio Rautavaara (1915), Armas Taipale (1890), Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958), Leevi Madetoja (1887), and Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870). After him are Johan Wilhelm Rangell (1894), JJ Lehto (1966), Heikki Kovalainen (1981), Erkki Aaltonen (1910), Alexi Laiho (1979), and Aarre Merikanto (1893).

Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Ilmari Salminen ranks 14Before him are Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Lauri Virtanen (1904), Elias Katz (1901), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), and Armas Taipale (1890). After him are Julius Skutnabb (1889), Julius Saaristo (1891), Elmer Niklander (1890), Harri Larva (1906), Edvin Wide (1896), and Jonni Myyrä (1892).