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Jean Boiteux

1933 - 2010

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Jean Boiteux (20 June 1933 – 11 April 2010) was a French freestyle swimmer. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won the 400 m event in 1952, breaking the Olympic record and becoming the first French swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Boiteux has received more than 26,702 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jean Boiteux is the 1,530th most popular athlete (down from 863rd in 2019), the 5,029th most popular biography from France (down from 4,422nd in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jean Boiteux ranks 1,530 out of 6,025. Before him are Yuliya Levchenko, Carl Kaufmann, Tibor Tatai, Aldo Ghira, Heinz Ulzheimer, and Charles Marion. After him are Mo Farah, Mikhail Zhelev, Robert Korzeniowski, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Mia Gommers, and Bo Ekelund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jean Boiteux ranks 467. Before him are Michael Parenti, Janusz Sidło, Pete Wilson, Jonathan Penrose, Raúl Sánchez, and David Storey. After him are Thérèse Steinmetz, Penelope Lively, Bobby Smith, Sheila Hancock, Michael Novak, and Maurice Stokes. Among people deceased in 2010, Jean Boiteux ranks 379. Before him are Kenneth Lane, Roman Dmitriyev, Park Yong-ha, Sally Menke, Gheorghe Fiat, and Joseph Serge Miot. After him are Eduard Novák, Antoinette Meyer, Susanna Amatuni, Clive Donner, Bobby Smith, and Ravindra Kelekar.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Boiteux ranks 5,029 out of 6,770. Before him are Olivier Rouyer (1955), Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), Bernard Casoni (1961), Perrine Pelen (1960), Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (1961), and Annie Famose (1944). After him are René Ferrier (1936), Abou Diaby (1986), Charles Le Goffic (1863), Adrian Mannarino (1988), Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879), and Bruno Martini (1962).

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Among ATHLETES In France

Among athletes born in France, Jean Boiteux ranks 88. Before him are Raymond Flacher (1903), Paul Bontemps (1902), Louis Hostin (1908), Émile Wegelin (1875), Raoul Paoli (1887), and Jean-Guy Gautier (1875). After him are Léon Moreaux (1852), Eddy Ottoz (1944), Noël Vandernotte (1923), Charles Perrin (1875), René Lorain (1900), and André Jousseaume (1894).

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