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Jean Pickering

1929 - 2013

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Jean Catherine Pickering (née Desforges; 4 July 1929 – 25 March 2013) was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump. She won bronze medals at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games and is the only British woman to have won gold medals at the European Athletics Championships in both a track and a field event (4×100 m relay in 1950, long jump in 1954). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Pickering has received more than 30,892 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean Pickering is the 3,318th most popular athlete (down from 2,440th in 2019), the 6,779th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,213th in 2019) and the 116th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jean Pickering ranks 3,318 out of 6,025. Before her are Nellie Halstead, Matthew Birir, Shin Yu-bin, Kimmo Kinnunen, Jean-Christophe Rolland, and Peter Rono. After her are Karine Ruby, Mark Kirchner, Anca Tănase, Hagen Melzer, Patrícia Mamona, and Hrysopiyi Devetzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jean Pickering ranks 561. Before her are Joi Lansing, Thomas Eagleton, Ila Arun, Jimmy Adamson, Usha Kiran, and Peter Thomson. After her is Noor Alam. Among people deceased in 2013, Jean Pickering ranks 536. Before her are Chi Cheng, Kenny Ball, Chrissy Amphlett, Harry F. Byrd Jr., C. Everett Koop, and Rituparno Ghosh. After her are Thompson Oliha, Hervé Boussard, Burry Stander, Soraya Jiménez, Hakimullah Mehsud, and Besik Kudukhov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jean Pickering ranks 6,779 out of 8,785. Before her are Nellie Halstead (1910), Laurence Fox (1978), Jay Bothroyd (1982), Andrew Haigh (1973), Kevin Nolan (1982), and Bob Wilson (1941). After her are Lady Louise Windsor (2003), Alan Peacock (1937), Frank McGarvey (1956), Graeme Sharp (1960), Adrian Edmondson (1957), and Fabian Delph (1989).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Jean Pickering ranks 116. Before her are Eileen Hiscock (1909), Alan Pascoe (1947), Walter D'Hondt (1936), Brendan Foster (1948), Sheila Sherwood (1945), and Nellie Halstead (1910). After her are Kirsten Barnes (1968), Dorothy Hyman (1941), Richard Meade (1938), Enrico Rossi (null), Zsófia Kovács (null), and David Broome (1940).

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