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Karin Balzer

1938 - 2019

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Karin Balzer (née Richert; 5 June 1938 – 17 December 2019) was an East German hurdler who competed in the 80 m hurdles event at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics, and in the 100 m hurdles in 1972. She won a gold medal in 1964 and a bronze in 1972, while finishing fifth in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karin Balzer has received more than 34,693 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Karin Balzer is the 215th most popular athlete (up from 236th in 2019), the 3,460th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,527th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Karin Balzer ranks 215 out of 6,025. Before her are Nasser Al-Attiyah, Dorian Yates, Ivan Patzaichin, Nándor Dáni, John Paine, and Carl Diem. After her are Otto Herschmann, Natalya Lisovskaya, Janusz Kusociński, Michael Johnson, Éva Székely, and Gottfried Diener.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Karin Balzer ranks 248. Before her are Olga Szabó-Orbán, Kurt Moll, Deniz Baykal, Tommy Chong, Fred Anton Maier, and Freddie Hubbard. After her are Anar Rzayev, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Aleksei Yuryevich German, Spencer Johnson, Corine Rottschäfer, and Leonardo Favio. Among people deceased in 2019, Karin Balzer ranks 203. Before her are Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chelo Alonso, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Charles Jencks, Claude Goretta, and Prosper Grech. After her are Tania Mallet, France-Albert René, Gyoji Matsumoto, Vladimir Etush, María Baxa, and Achille Silvestrini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karin Balzer ranks 3,460 out of 7,253. Before her are Brunhilde Pomsel (1911), Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829), Henry Oldenburg (1619), Carl Diem (1882), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1879), and Bernhard Cullmann (1949). After her are Karl Mai (1928), Anna Maria of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (1532), Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965), Traugott Herr (1890), Paul Reinecke (1872), and Emanuel Leutze (1816).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Karin Balzer ranks 22. Before her are Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Heike Drechsler (1964), Margitta Gummel (1941), Gisela Mauermayer (1913), Renate Stecher (1950), and Carl Diem (1882). After her are Marlies Göhr (1958), Karl Hein (1908), Gabriele Reinsch (1963), Birgit Fischer (1962), Marianne Werner (1924), and Hans Günter Winkler (1926).

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