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Jafar Salmasi

1918 - 2000

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Jafar Salmassi (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 28,363 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jafar Salmasi is the 1,811th most popular athlete (down from 971st in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 303rd in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Athlete.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jafar Salmasi ranks 1,811 out of 6,025. Before him are Dafne Schippers, Yulimar Rojas, Conrad Magnusson, Daniel Bautista, Carl Abrahamsson, and Bjørn Paulson. After him are Marilyn Black, Alfons Dorfner, Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Gábor Novák, Emil Hegle Svendsen, and Kalevi Hämäläinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Jafar Salmasi ranks 298. Before him are Elaine de Kooning, Eddy Arnold, Alberto Héber Usher, Norman Granz, Adolph Kiefer, and Kenneth Connor. After him are Edith Massey, Virginia Davis, Guillermo Lovell, Albertina Sisulu, Ben Klassen, and Dusty Anderson. Among people deceased in 2000, Jafar Salmasi ranks 327. Before him are Lino Nessi, Émile Mercier, Lynden Pindling, Alla Rakha, Émile Druart, and Alberto Demiddi. After him are Francis Lederer, Chidambaram Subramaniam, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Alfred Bohrmann, Henry Seiling, and Udham Singh.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Jafar Salmasi ranks 340 out of 384. Before him are Dar Salim (1977), Jalal Dabagh (1939), Sajida al-Rishawi (1970), Raad Hammoudi (1953), Sadeq Larijani (1961), and Charles Saatchi (1943). After him are Abu Azrael (1978), Muntadhar al-Zaidi (1979), Beatrice Ohanessian (1927), Hawar Mulla Mohammed (1981), Ali Adnan Kadhim (1993), and Juba (1978).

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Among ATHLETES In Iraq

Among athletes born in Iraq, Jafar Salmasi ranks 1. After him are Dana Hussain (1986), Dina Ellermann (1980), Aker Al-Obaidi (1999), Ammar Abduljabbar (1995), and Vlado Popadić (1996).

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