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Jenny Thompson

1973 - Today

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Jennifer Beth Thompson (born February 26, 1973) is an American former competition swimmer and anesthesiologist. She is one of the most decorated Olympians in history: twelve medals, including eight gold medals, in the 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Olympics. Thompson, a Massachusetts native who calls Dover, New Hampshire, her hometown, began swimming at age 7 at a summer country club called Cedardale in Groveland, Massachusetts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jenny Thompson has received more than 570,222 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jenny Thompson is the 214th most popular swimmer (down from 150th in 2019), the 13,707th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,609th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Swimmer.

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  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Jenny Thompson ranks 214 out of 709. Before her are Tamás Darnyi, Andrea Gyarmati, Lillian Watson, Brad Cooper, Matt Vogel, and Louis Handley. After her are Shirley Babashoff, Petra Thümer, Josephine McKim, Boy Charlton, Camille Muffat, and Sergey Koplyakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Jenny Thompson ranks 514. Before her are Chad Trujillo, Mark Huizinga, Colin Egglesfield, Stephanie Graf, Alexander Beyer, and Matt Passmore. After her are Sergei Tiviakov, Toshihide Saito, Kevin Phillips, Fleur Pellerin, Arnaud Beltrame, and Sergey Shnurov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jenny Thompson ranks 13,707 out of 20,380. Before her are Traci Bingham (1968), Greg Mottola (1964), Carol Moseley Braun (1947), Richard Speight Jr. (1969), Young Maylay (1979), and Patricia Blair (1933). After her are Louis Fischer (1896), Rachel Zegler (2001), Mary Beth Hughes (1919), Carrot Top (1965), Siedah Garrett (1960), and Reese Hoffa (1977).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Jenny Thompson ranks 81. Before her are Sybil Bauer (1903), Dana Vollmer (1987), Jane Barkman (1951), Allison Schmitt (1990), Lillian Watson (1950), and Matt Vogel (1957). After her are Shirley Babashoff (1957), Josephine McKim (1910), Pablo Morales (1964), Keena Rothhammer (1957), Janet Evans (1971), and Cathy Carr (1954).

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