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Jadwiga Wajs

1912 - 1990

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Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz (30 January 1912 in Pabianice, Russian Empire – 1 February 1990) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jadwiga Wajs has received more than 25,265 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jadwiga Wajs is the 1,644th most popular athlete (down from 1,020th in 2019), the 1,218th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,036th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jadwiga Wajs ranks 1,644 out of 6,025Before her are Arvo Viitanen, Müzahir Sille, Svetlana Krachevskaya, Paula Marosi, Alejandro Casañas, and Bernard Malivoire. After her are Folke Alnevik, Róbert Antal, Queenie Newall, Vladimír Růžička, Kálmán Markovits, and Gerd Kanter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Jadwiga Wajs ranks 367Before her are Francisco Cabañas, Georgia Coleman, Ruby Payne-Scott, Rudolf Stahl, Anna J. Harrison, and Joseph Van Ingelgem. After her are Eva Crane, Wendy Barrie, Eleazar de Carvalho, Dorothy Brookshaw, Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, and George Woodcock. Among people deceased in 1990, Jadwiga Wajs ranks 284Before her are Spark Matsunaga, Ryan White, Susan Oliver, Pearl Bailey, Mike Mazurki, and David Rose. After her are Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn, Norman Malcolm, Juan Manuel Bordeu, Walker Percy, V. Shantaram, and Leongino Unzaim.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jadwiga Wajs ranks 1,218 out of 1,694Before her are Aleksei Guskov (1958), Martin Max (1968), Franciszek Gągor (1951), Gilda Gray (1901), Zygmunt Chychła (1926), and Krystyna Bochenek (1953). After her are Jan Szczepański (1939), Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (1921), Antoni Zygmund (1900), Jan Urban (1962), Leszek Drogosz (1933), and Anna Komorowska (1953).

Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Jadwiga Wajs ranks 39Before her are Józef Grudzień (1939), Witold Woyda (1939), Robert Korzeniowski (1968), Kazimierz Paździor (1935), Andrzej Zieliński (1936), and Zygmunt Chychła (1926). After her are Andrzej Badeński (1943), Hans Grodotzki (1936), Teodor Kocerka (1927), Tadeusz Rut (1931), Meinhard Nehmer (1941), and Jan Kowalczyk (1941).