BOXER

Ján Zachara

1928 - 2025

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Ján Zachara (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈjaːn ˈzaxara]; 27 August 1928 – 2 January 2025) was a Slovak boxer. Representing Czechoslovakia, he won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ján Zachara has received more than 16,738 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ján Zachara is the 94th most popular boxer (up from 13,649th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 160th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Boxer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Ján Zachara ranks 94 out of 496. Before him are Fernando Atzori, Aureliano Bolognesi, Carmelo Bossi, Henry Cooper, Samuel Berger, and Carmen Barth. After him are Jimmy Ellis, Rodrigo Valdez, Willy Kaiser, Ronald Rawson, István Énekes, and Tony Zale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Ján Zachara ranks 404. Before him are Simón Díaz, Eydie Gormé, Manuel Scorza, Dick Van Patten, Miroslav Filip, and Jaime Sin. After him are Tadeusz Baird, Gregory Walcott, Joyce Mansour, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Harold Becker, and Othmar Schneider. Among people deceased in 2025, Ján Zachara ranks 10. Before him are Costas Simitis, Oliviero Toscani, David Lodge, Ferdi Tayfur, Robert Hübner, and Fabio Cudicini. After him are Claude Allègre, Werner Leimgruber, Ayla Erduran, Cristóbal Ortega, Peter Yarrow, and Bill Byrge.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ján Zachara ranks 185 out of 418. Before him are Janko Alexy (1894), Martin Kukučín (1860), Jozef Čapkovič (1948), Pavel Schmidt (1930), Ludwig Schlesinger (1864), and Ján Hollý (1785). After him are Vladimir Oravsky (1947), Stanislav Seman (1952), Martin Benka (1888), Jozef Murgaš (1864), Ferenc Sidó (1923), and Jozef Chovanec (1960).

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Among BOXERS In Slovakia

Among boxers born in Slovakia, Ján Zachara ranks 1. After him are Jajaira Gonzalez (null), and Andrej Csemez (1998).

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