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Inese Jaunzeme

1932 - 2011

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Inese Jaunzeme (21 May 1932 – 13 February 2011) was a Latvian javelin thrower who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics. Jaunzeme placed third at the Soviet Union Championships in 1956, earning herself a place on the Soviet Olympic team for the 1956 Olympics. She set an Olympic record in the first round of the event and went on to improve her mark twice more, ending up with a winning throw of 53.86 metres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Inese Jaunzeme has received more than 22,203 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Inese Jaunzeme is the 103rd most popular athlete (down from 87th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 56th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Inese Jaunzeme ranks 103 out of 6,025. Before her are Ralph Rose, Dora Ratjen, Frank Jarvis, Viktor Mamatov, Robert Hichens, and John Flanagan. After her are Theagenes of Thasos, Edwin Moses, Gaston Roelants, Volodymyr Holubnychy, Thomas Curtis, and Donald Arnold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Inese Jaunzeme ranks 174. Before her are Joel Grey, Étienne Tshisekedi, Richard Lester, Oreco, Pál Csernai, and Javier Echevarría Rodríguez. After her are Tiny Tim, Predrag Matvejević, Alexander Kluge, Miloslav Vlk, Bronisław Geremek, and Michihiro Ozawa. Among people deceased in 2011, Inese Jaunzeme ranks 126. Before her are John Paul Getty III, Ange-Félix Patassé, Abdul Fatah Younis, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, María Elena Walsh, and Jack Kevorkian. After her are Lazar Mojsov, Josef Suk, Susannah York, Édouard Glissant, Peter Yates, and Andy Whitfield.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Inese Jaunzeme ranks 57 out of 323. Before her are Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Philippe Halsman (1906), Elya Baskin (1950), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), and Ferdinand Kettler (1655). After her are Jānis Pujats (1930), Pēteris Stučka (1865), Paul Walden (1863), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), Max Weinreich (1894), and Edgars Rinkēvičs (1973).

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Among ATHLETES In Latvia

Among athletes born in Latvia, Inese Jaunzeme ranks 2. Before her are Jānis Lūsis (1939). After her are Alfred Neuland (1895), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947), Dainis Kūla (1959), Ursula Donath (1931), Juris Silovs (1950), George Gulack (1905), Inta Kļimoviča (1951), Jānis Ķipurs (1958), and Andrejs Rastorgujevs (1988).

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