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Imre Németh

1917 - 1989

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Imre Németh (23 September 1917 in Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia) – 18 August 1989 in Budapest) was a Hungarian hammer thrower. He won the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, Great Britain. He returned four years later to defend his title at the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland but failed, only managing to finish third for the bronze medal.Németh broke the world record on three occasions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Imre Németh has received more than 16,981 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Imre Németh is the 163rd most popular athlete (up from 327th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 134th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Imre Németh ranks 163 out of 3,059Before him are Bob King, Vladimir Kuts, Ralph Boston, Esther Brand, Gunnar Höckert, and Margitta Gummel. After him are Bobby Pearce, Eugen Schmidt, William Hoyt, Charles Dvorak, Ethel Smith, and Viorica Viscopoleanu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Imre Németh ranks 165Before him are Dondinho, Ann Rutherford, Celeste Holm, Bertil Nordahl, Aníbal Paz, and Luigi Poggi. After him are Vasily Mishin, Steno, Olga Sanfirova, Zainab al Ghazali, Domenico Bartolucci, and David Tomlinson. Among people deceased in 1989, Imre Németh ranks 129Before him are Huey P. Newton, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edoardo Amaldi, Harold Jeffreys, Sourou-Migan Apithy, and Kaj Franck. After him are Georges Schehadé, Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, Carl Dahlhaus, Luiz Gonzaga, George C. Homans, and Armand Salacrou.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Imre Németh ranks 105 out of 357Before him are Dušan Uhrin (1943), Anna Kolesárová (1928), Pavel Peter Gojdič (1888), Juraj Herz (1934), Paul Kray (1735), and Mikuláš Dzurinda (1956). After him are Hana Hegerová (1931), István Friedrich (1883), Stan Mikita (1940), Jaromil Jireš (1935), Andrej Kvašňák (1936), and Pál Szinyei Merse (1845).

Among ATHLETES In Slovakia

Among athletes born in Slovakia, Imre Németh ranks 3Before him are Alajos Szokolyi (1871) and Vladimír Dzurilla (1942). After him are József Csermák (1932), Béla Szepes (1903), Jozef Pribilinec (1960), Imrich Bugár (1955), Michal Martikán (1979), Ján Volko (1996), Elena Kaliská (1972), Pavol Hurajt (1978), and Pavol Hochschorner (1979).