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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 423,302 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jenny Thompson is the 150th most popular swimmer (down from 108th in 2019), the 13,643rd most popular biography from United States (down from 11,880th in 2019) and the 51st most popular American Swimmer.

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  • 420k

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  • 34.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Jenny Thompson ranks 150 out of 392Before her are Pernille Blume, Shirley Babashoff, Sandy Neilson, Lars Frölander, Zoltán Verrasztó, and Milorad Čavić. After her are Doug Russell, Mireia Belmonte, Kosuke Kitajima, Florent Manaudou, Bengt Baron, and Yuliya Yefimova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Jenny Thompson ranks 564Before her are Nikolai Khabibulin, Olena Zubrilova, Dileep Rao, Takafumi Ogura, Eric Lange, and Chris Metzen. After her are Michael Finley, Sergey Makarov, Malaika Arora, Peter Heine Nielsen, Jakob Piil, and Jorge Arreaza.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jenny Thompson ranks 13,643 out of 18,182Before her are T.J. Miller (1981), Geoffrey A. Landis (1955), Aaron Hernandez (1989), Barbara Lawrence (1930), Douglas McGrath (1958), and Dan Povenmire (1963). After her are Mark Oliver Everett (1963), Michael Finley (1973), Tamala Jones (1974), Tom Perez (1961), Bill Johnson (1960), and Bill Brock (1930).

Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Jenny Thompson ranks 51Before her are Cathy Ferguson (1948), Melissa Belote (1956), John Hencken (1954), Shirley Babashoff (1957), Sandy Neilson (1956), and Milorad Čavić (1984). After her are Doug Russell (1946), Aaron Peirsol (1983), Kaye Hall (1951), Dara Torres (1967), John Naber (1956), and Tom Jager (1964).