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Janet Evans

1971 - Today

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Janet Beth Evans (born August 28, 1971) is an American former competition swimmer who swam from 1989-1992 for Stanford University and specialized in distance freestyle events. Evans was a world champion and world record-holder, and won a total of four gold medals in the 400 and 800-meter freestyle events at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Janet Evans has received more than 533,316 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Janet Evans is the 226th most popular swimmer (down from 183rd in 2019), the 14,237th most popular biography from United States (up from 14,618th in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Swimmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Janet Evans ranks 226 out of 709. Before her are Sergey Koplyakov, Judy Grinham, Pablo Morales, Jon Henricks, Oussama Mellouli, and Keena Rothhammer. After her are Cathy Carr, Sandy Neilson, Sylvie Fréchette, Kosuke Kitajima, Franziska van Almsick, and Ranomi Kromowidjojo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Janet Evans ranks 594. Before her are Oleg Tsokov, Dietmar Kühbauer, Gonzalo Rodríguez, Alice Bah Kuhnke, Frank Giering, and Russell Allen. After her are MC Eiht, Nana Smith, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sébastien Fournier, Ajith Kumar, and Liviu Ciobotariu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Janet Evans ranks 14,237 out of 20,380. Before her are Marilyn Quayle (1949), Ali Wong (1982), Russell Allen (1971), Mike Oxley (1944), Andrea Bowen (1990), and Mark Tuan (1993). After her are Bill Sage (1962), Ann Leckie (1966), Martin Gabel (1911), MC Eiht (1971), Jeff Bergman (1960), and Cheryl Lynn (1957).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Janet Evans ranks 86. Before her are Matt Vogel (1957), Jenny Thompson (1973), Shirley Babashoff (1957), Josephine McKim (1910), Pablo Morales (1964), and Keena Rothhammer (1957). After her are Cathy Carr (1954), Sandy Neilson (1956), Milorad Čavić (1984), Tim Shaw (1957), Ginny Duenkel (1947), and Susan Pedersen (1953).

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