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Karen Hoff

1921 - 2000

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Karen Hoff (29 May 1921 – 29 February 2000) was a Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She became the first female Olympic champion in the sport of canoeing when she won the gold medal in the K-1 500 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Hoff has received more than 11,955 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Karen Hoff is the 580th most popular athlete (down from 420th in 2019), the 477th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 433rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Danish Athlete.

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  • 48.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Karen Hoff ranks 580 out of 6,025. Before her are Ioannis Persakis, Eugen Schmidt, Norbert Schemansky, Eduardo Guerrero, Patrick Ryan, and Tommy Hampson. After her are Anatoly Alyabyev, Valeri Popenchenko, Don Thompson, Émile Grumiaux, Ray Barbuti, and Andreas Krieger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Karen Hoff ranks 300. Before her are Francis Blanche, Heinrich Schmid, Sotiria Bellou, Joseph Iléo, Ruth Orkin, and Steve Allen. After her are Ernest Gold, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Liz Smith, Bernard Lown, Roger Bocquet, and Ilse Werner. Among people deceased in 2000, Karen Hoff ranks 211. Before her are Philippe Chatrier, Annie Palmen, Humberto de Araújo Benevenuto, Gerardo Romero, Olena Apanovych, and Steve Allen. After her are Yokozuna, Johann Urbanek, Ernest Lluch, Théodore Monod, Erich Kähler, and Hélène Prévost.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Karen Hoff ranks 477 out of 1,032. Before her are Flemming Povlsen (1966), Nils Asther (1897), Prince Frederick William of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1668), Daniel Agger (1984), Eugen Schmidt (1862), and Uffe Ellemann-Jensen (1941). After her are Henrik Nordbrandt (1945), Frans Blom (1893), Katja K (1968), Ulla Pia (1945), Hannibal Sehested (1842), and Nathaniel Wallich (1786).

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Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Karen Hoff ranks 9. Before her are Edgar Aabye (1865), Karen Harup (1924), Lis Hartel (1921), Charles Winckler (1867), Ernst Schultz (1879), and Eugen Schmidt (1862). After her are Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899), Henry Petersen (1900), Kurt Helmudt (1943), Lars Jørgen Madsen (1871), Finn Haunstoft (1928), and Erik Hansen (1939).

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