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John Ljunggren

1919 - 2000

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John Arthur Ljunggren (9 September 1919 – 13 January 2000) was a Swedish race walker. He competed in the 50 kilometer event at the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first, ninth, third, second and 16th place, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ljunggren has received more than 13,696 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Ljunggren is the 148th most popular athlete (up from 246th in 2019), the 428th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 517th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, John Ljunggren ranks 148 out of 3,059. Before him are Charilaos Vasilakos, Gaston Roelants, John Carlos, Waldemar Cierpinski, Oscar Pistorius, and Yevgeny Grishin. After him are Nils von Kantzow, Francisco Lázaro, Tilly Fleischer, Harrison Dillard, Galina Chistyakova, and Juan Carlos Zabala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, John Ljunggren ranks 149. Before him are Joseph Serchuk, Félix Gaillard, I. K. Gujral, Ferruccio Valcareggi, Vera Aceva, and Ota Šik. After him are Howard Keel, Rie Mastenbroek, Pierre Gamarra, Mariano Martín, Albert Batteux, and Vikram Sarabhai. Among people deceased in 2000, John Ljunggren ranks 130. Before him are Joey Dunlop, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Ferenc Farkas, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Oleg Yefremov, and John Tukey. After him are George Segal, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Leonidas Pyrgos, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, and Nancy Marchand.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, John Ljunggren ranks 428 out of 1,612. Before him are Gösta Ekman (1890), Peter Artedi (1705), Jan Eliasson (1940), Ernst Josephson (1851), Svante Pääbo (1955), and Arvid Lindman (1862). After him are Nils von Kantzow (1885), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Gideon Ståhlberg (1908), Emma Wiklund (1968), Ivan Eklind (1905), and Johan Tobias Sergel (1740).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, John Ljunggren ranks 4. Before him are Sigfrid Edström (1870), Eric Lemming (1880), and Oscar Swahn (1847). After him are Nils von Kantzow (1885), August Nilsson (1872), Georg Åberg (1893), Gert Fredriksson (1919), Karl Staaf (1881), Henrik Sjöberg (1875), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), and Erik Abrahamsson (1898).

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