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K. D. Jadhav

1926 - 1984

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Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, (15 January 1926 – 14 August 1984) was an Indian freestyle wrestler. He is best known for winning a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.After Norman Pritchard who won two silver medals in athletics in 1900 under colonial India, Khashaba was the first individual athlete from independent India to win a medal at the Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. D. Jadhav has received more than 844,219 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). K. D. Jadhav is the 254th most popular athlete (up from 548th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from India (up from 543rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year K. D. Jadhav has had the most page views in the with 91,592 views, followed by Marathi (31,568), and Hindi (21,098). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hindi (233.25%), Assamese (60.58%), and Finnish (37.33%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, K. D. Jadhav ranks 254 out of 6,025. Before him are Peter Snell, Inessa Kravets, Francis Lane, Jonathan Edwards, Marlies Göhr, and Volmari Iso-Hollo. After him are Miruts Yifter, Evelyne Hall, Nadezhda Chizhova, Juhani Suutarinen, Donald Lippincott, and Gert Fredriksson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, K. D. Jadhav ranks 238. Before him are Arnošt Lustig, Jon Vickers, Jacques Rozier, Bryan Johnson, Bernhard Klodt, and Salahuddin of Selangor. After him are Heinz Kwiatkowski, Baltazar, Julie Adams, Salvador Jorge Blanco, Driss Chraïbi, and Richard Yates. Among people deceased in 1984, K. D. Jadhav ranks 129. Before him are Viktor Chukarin, J. B. Priestley, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Valery Voronin, and Giuseppe Tucci. After him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Flora Robson, Gaëtan Dugas, Lillian Hellman, Arvīds Jansons, and Lola Anglada.

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In India

Among people born in India, K. D. Jadhav ranks 450 out of 1,861. Before him are Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Tanuja (1943), Jhalkaribai (1830), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), and Govind Ballabh Pant (1887). After him are Fathima Beevi (1927), Fatima Sheikh (1831), Pingali Venkayya (1876), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Jaswant Singh (1938), and Chand Bibi (1550).

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Among ATHLETES In India

Among athletes born in India, K. D. Jadhav ranks 1. After him are Charles Gmelin (1872), Launceston Elliot (1874), Fauja Singh (1911), P. T. Usha (1964), Godfrey Brown (1915), Udham Singh (1928), Balbir Singh Sr. (1923), Leslie Claudius (1927), Karnam Malleswari (1975), Richard Allen (1902), and Ajit Pal Singh (1947).

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