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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 11,102 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Karen Hoff is the 420th most popular athlete (down from 374th in 2019), the 435th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 401st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Athlete.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Karen Hoff ranks 420 out of 3,059Before her are Paavo Yrjölä, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Spyridon Belokas, Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Lindy Remigino, and Duncan McNaughton. After her are Arvo Askola, Otto Herschmann, Christa Stubnick, Frank Irons, Jüri Tarmak, and Klaus Dibiasi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Karen Hoff ranks 283Before her are Ferenc Karinthy, George Nader, Jan Sterling, Walter Rudin, Heinrich Schmid, and Chico Hamilton. After her are H. C. Artmann, Michel Boisrond, Phạm Duy, Ettore Chimeri, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, and Roger Bocquet. Among people deceased in 2000, Karen Hoff ranks 185Before her are Piero Pasinati, Tofig Guliyev, Rodolfo Pini, Johannes Virolainen, Pietro Palazzini, and Spyridon Belokas. After her are Laila Kinnunen, Humberto de Araújo Benevenuto, Vincentas Sladkevičius, Stanislav Stratiev, H. C. Artmann, and Théodore Monod.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Karen Hoff ranks 435 out of 893Before her are Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ (1812), Johan Lange (1818), Vivi Bach (1939), Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685), Willy Hansen (1906), and Klaus Rifbjerg (1931). After her are Urban Gad (1879), Christian Poulsen (1980), Lauge Koch (1892), Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1817), Else Alfelt (1910), and John Eriksen (1957).

Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Karen Hoff ranks 8Before her are Viggo Jensen (1874), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Lis Hartel (1921), Karen Harup (1924), Charles Winckler (1867), and Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899). After her are Ernst Schultz (1879), Henry Petersen (1900), Lars Jørgen Madsen (1871), Finn Pedersen (1925), Lily Carlstedt (1926), and Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922).