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Jafar Salmasi

1918 - 2000

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Mohammad-Jafar Salmasi (Persian: محمدجعفر سلماسی, 22 September 1918 – 31 January 2000) was an Iranian weightlifter who won Iran's first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jafar Salmasi has received more than 23,196 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jafar Salmasi is the 972nd most popular athlete, the 305th most popular biography from Iraq and the most popular Iraqi Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jafar Salmasi ranks 972 out of 3,059. Before him are Fred Børre Lundberg, Henri Jobier, Ernst Larsen, Edwin Hedley, Kaarlo Kangasniemi, and Anastasiya Kuzmina. After him are Ervin Mészáros, Fritz Schwab, William Hogenson, Walter Byron, Leni Schmidt, and Émile Fisseux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Jafar Salmasi ranks 240. Before him are Professor Longhair, Max de Terra, Dick Haymes, Margaret Osborne duPont, Mrinalini Sarabhai, and Reinaldo Gorno. After him are Spike Milligan, Edward Craven Walker, Alan Jay Lerner, Tony Rolt, John Bromwich, and Göte Hagström. Among people deceased in 2000, Jafar Salmasi ranks 257. Before him are Edward Battell, Mark R. Hughes, Jules Roy, Anthony Powell, Paul Van den Broeck, and Noor Jehan. After him are Simeon Simeonov, Edward Craven Walker, George Montgomery, Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz, Efstathios Chorafas, and Ernesto Albarracín.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Jafar Salmasi ranks 305 out of 338. Before him are Mullah Krekar (1956), Paulos Faraj Rahho (1942), Jalal Dabagh (1939), Ramzi Yousef (1968), Ahmed Radhi (1964), and Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi (1954). After him are Charles Saatchi (1943), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), Avi Shlaim (1945), Rana Hussein (1969), Beatrice Ohanessian (1927), and Sadeq Larijani (1961).

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Among ATHLETES In Iraq

Among athletes born in Iraq, Jafar Salmasi ranks 1. 

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