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Kinue Hitomi

1907 - 1931

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Kinue Hitomi (人見 絹枝, Hitomi Kinue, January 1, 1907 – August 2, 1931) was a Japanese track and field athlete. She was the world record holder in several events in the 1920s – 1930s and was the first Japanese woman to win an Olympic medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kinue Hitomi has received more than 50,936 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Kinue Hitomi is the 471st most popular athlete (down from 272nd in 2019), the 1,193rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,027th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Kinue Hitomi ranks 471 out of 6,025. Before her are Randy Williams, László Szollás, Bilistiche, Boughera El Ouafi, André Bonin, and Jüri Tamm. After her are Mikio Oda, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Ingrid Gulbin, Adrien Rommel, Abelardo Olivier, and Simon Slåttvik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Kinue Hitomi ranks 249. Before her are Sanya Dharmasakti, Chico Landi, Shivakumara Swami, Nikolai Gastello, Ragnar Nurkse, and László Szollás. After her are Sven Andersson, Antonín Vodička, Vasja Pirc, Fritz Wotruba, Martín Marculeta, and Ludwig Biermann. Among people deceased in 1931, Kinue Hitomi ranks 112. Before her are Victor Bérard, Curt von François, David Starr Jordan, Aleksander Skrzyński, Elsa Laula Renberg, and Jetze Doorman. After her are Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Federico Tinoco Granados, Alma Rubens, Marvin Hart, Kálmán Kandó, and Ladislaus Bortkiewicz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kinue Hitomi ranks 1,193 out of 6,245. Before her are Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Jinzō Matsumura (1856), Mazie Hirono (1947), Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Sumio Iijima (1939), and Iccho Itoh (1945). After her are Mikio Oda (1905), Minami Takayama (1964), Shoko Hamada (1950), Shirō Sagisu (1957), Yōichi Takahashi (1960), and Yukio Ozaki (1858).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Kinue Hitomi ranks 3. Before her are Shizo Kanakuri (1891), and Naoto Tajima (1912). After her are Mikio Oda (1905), Isao Okano (1944), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Noboru Terada (1917), Masao Harada (1912), Masaru Furukawa (1936), and Tetsuo Hamuro (1917).

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