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Jānis Daliņš

1904 - 1978

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Jānis Daliņš (5 November 1904 – 11 June 1978) was a Latvian race walker. Competing in the 50 km event he won a silver medal at the 1932 Olympics, becoming the first athlete to win an Olympic medal competing for Latvia. He also won the 1934 European title and set seven world records in the 1930s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jānis Daliņš has received more than 20,851 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jānis Daliņš is the 345th most popular athlete (up from 347th in 2019), the 120th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 112th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Jānis Daliņš ranks 345 out of 3,059Before him are Charles Moore, Edwin Flack, Lars Hall, Tamara Bykova, Georgios Papasideris, and Georgios Orphanidis. After him are Eddie Tolan, Blanka Vlašić, Berit Mørdre, Rosa Mota, Étienne Gailly, and Roald Larsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Jānis Daliņš ranks 212Before him are Bozorg Alavi, Ladislav Ženíšek, Ancel Keys, Giuliano Bonfante, Ciriaco Errasti, and Andrew Marton. After him are Käthe von Nagy, Humberto Elgueta, Henry Russell, Carlos Torre Repetto, Tommy Douglas, and Giulio Gaudini. Among people deceased in 1978, Jānis Daliņš ranks 156Before him are Mario Varglien, Gene Tunney, Georges Speicher, Philip K. Hitti, Artem Alikhanian, and Abdylas Maldybaev. After him are Léon Damas, Carlos Torre Repetto, Jorge Cafrune, O. E. Hasse, Ethelda Bleibtrey, and Ali Soilih.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Jānis Daliņš ranks 120 out of 284Before him are Lya Mara (1897), Elīna Garanča (1976), Heinz Erhardt (1909), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), and Lūcija Garūta (1902). After him are Jānis Ivanovs (1906), Eliyahu Rips (1948), Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879), Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879), Regīna Ezera (1930), and Imants Kalniņš (1941).

Among ATHLETES In Latvia

Among athletes born in Latvia, Jānis Daliņš ranks 4Before him are Jānis Lūsis (1939), Inese Jaunzeme (1932), and Alfred Neuland (1895). After him are Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947), Dainis Kūla (1959), Juris Silovs (1950), Ursula Donath (1931), George Gulack (1905), Jānis Ķipurs (1958), Ilmārs Bricis (1970), and Tomass Dukurs (1981).