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Karen Harup

1924 - 2009

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Karen Margrethe Harup Petersen (20 November 1924 – 9 July 2009) was a Danish swimmer. She competed in four events at the 1948 Summer Olympics and won three medals: a gold in the 100 m backstroke and silvers in the 400 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle, placing fourth in the 100 m freestyle. She won three more gold medals at the 1947 European Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Harup has received more than 23,350 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Karen Harup is the 267th most popular athlete (up from 282nd in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 382nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Athlete.

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  • 51.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Karen Harup ranks 267 out of 6,025. Before her are Miklós Németh, Arie van Vliet, Ed Ablowich, Dimitrios Golemis, Milka Babović, and Harold Osborn. After her are Adolphe Grisel, Vladimir Melanin, William Hoyt, Harald Grønningen, Oscar Pistorius, and Sergey Litvinov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Karen Harup ranks 239. Before her are Colleen Dewhurst, Alphons Egli, Navvab Safavi, Ján Chryzostom Korec, Ruth Teitelbaum, and František Vláčil. After her are Dodo Abashidze, György Lázár, Luděk Pachman, Azucena Villaflor, Jean-Michel Charlier, and Erik Balling. Among people deceased in 2009, Karen Harup ranks 174. Before her are Chuck Daly, Dan O'Bannon, Juvenal Amarijo, Gayatri Devi, Alain Bashung, and Adolf Merckle. After her are Fritz Darges, Grigore Vieru, Betsy Blair, Dom DeLuise, Tomislav Crnković, and Marilyn French.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Karen Harup ranks 364 out of 1,032. Before her are Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Johannes Jørgensen (1866), Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789), Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), Mikkel Hansen (1987), and Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801). After her are Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920), Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1584), Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), Gitte Hænning (1946), and Erik Balling (1924).

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Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Karen Harup ranks 4. Before her are Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922), Viggo Jensen (1874), and Edgar Aabye (1865). After her are Lis Hartel (1921), Charles Winckler (1867), Ernst Schultz (1879), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Karen Hoff (1921), Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899), Henry Petersen (1900), and Kurt Helmudt (1943).

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