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Jānis Bojārs

1956 - 2018

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Jānis Bojārs (12 May 1956 – 5 June 2018) was a Latvian male shot putter, best known for winning the silver medal for the Soviet Union in the men's shot put event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Bojārs has received more than 13,794 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jānis Bojārs is the 2,494th most popular athlete (down from 1,719th in 2019).

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jānis Bojārs ranks 2,494 out of 6,025. Before her are Ricco Groß, Letitia Vriesde, Mario Aldo Montano, Al Lawrence, Diana Gansky, and Christine Laser. After her are Hans van Helden, Viorica Ioja, György Sarlós, Richard Thompson, Galina Malchugina, and Igor Romishevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Jānis Bojārs ranks 617. Before her are František Jakubec, Kōji Gushiken, Manuel Jiménez, Jean-François Lamour, Ace Rusevski, and Sergei Borovsky. After her are Steve Denton, Erhard Wunderlich, David Sedaris, Curtis Brown, Patricia Kalember, and Alfredo Tena. Among people deceased in 2018, Jānis Bojārs ranks 548. Before her are Ken Flach, Nanette Fabray, Dick Quax, Naftali Bon, Joseph Campanella, and Yevgeni Zimin. After her are Saleh Ali al-Sammad, Harry Anderson, Christopher Lawford, Marc Bouissou, Ute Bock, and Eric Bristow.

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