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Ivo Van Damme

1954 - 1976

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Ivo Van Damme (21 February 1954 – 29 December 1976) was a Belgian middle-distance runner. Van Damme played football until he was 16, but then switched to athletics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivo Van Damme has received more than 80,173 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ivo Van Damme is the 343rd most popular athlete (down from 293rd in 2019), the 526th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 498th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Belgian Athlete.

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  • 50.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ivo Van Damme ranks 343 out of 6,025. Before him are Alfred Tysoe, Dexter Jackson, Richard Sheldon, Faina Melnik, Albert Ayat, and Pat McCormick. After him are Birgit Fischer, Julius Skutnabb, Nicolae Neagoe, Pål Tyldum, Franjo Mihalić, and Tore Sjöstrand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ivo Van Damme ranks 238. Before him are Sonia Sotomayor, Luis Royo, Andrzej Lepper, Jean Bourgain, Bouasone Bouphavanh, and Wolfgang Dremmler. After him are Eric Johnson, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou, Mark Tornillo, François Van der Elst, Ingrid Daubechies, and Catherine Bach. Among people deceased in 1976, Ivo Van Damme ranks 153. Before him are Giuseppe Cavanna, Maurice Dobb, Pierre Jean Jouve, Julius Döpfner, Percy Faith, and Otto Tief. After him are Mariano Ospina Pérez, Yakov Zak, Murtala Mohammed, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Anna Hübler, and Hamit Kaplan.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Ivo Van Damme ranks 526 out of 1,190. Before him are Jules Malou (1810), Cécile de France (1975), Sandra Kim (1972), Jean Bourgain (1954), Henri Coppens (1930), and Jean-Pierre Monseré (1948). After him are Francis Goya (1946), Jan Fabre (1958), Jean Aerts (1907), Simon Leys (1935), Frans Pourbus the Elder (1545), and Henri Jaspar (1870).

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Among ATHLETES In Belgium

Among athletes born in Belgium, Ivo Van Damme ranks 5. Before him are Gaston Roelants (1937), Gaston Reiff (1921), Hubert Van Innis (1866), and Robert Hennet (1886). After him are Victor Willems (1877), Emiel Puttemans (1947), Joël Robert (1943), Louis Glineur (1849), Étienne Gailly (1922), Émile Grumiaux (1861), and Prosper Bruggeman (1873).

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