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Kusuo Kitamura

1917 - 1996

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Kusuo Kitamura (北村 久寿雄, Kitamura Kusuo, October 9, 1917 – June 6, 1996) was a Japanese swimmer who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.Kitamura was born in Kōchi, Japan. Selected as one of the youngest members of the Japanese swimming team in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, he won the gold medal in the Men's 1500 meter freestyle swimming event. He was 14 years and 309 days old at the time, setting a record for youngest ever swimmer to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kusuo Kitamura has received more than 28,505 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Kusuo Kitamura is the 56th most popular swimmer (down from 29th in 2019), the 1,291st most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,190th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Swimmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 29k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Kusuo Kitamuras by language

Over the past year Kusuo Kitamura has had the most page views in the with 3,576 views, followed by English (2,417), and Chinese (728). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (132.80%), Ukrainian (91.45%), and Swedish (10.05%)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 56 out of 709. Before her are Fanny Durack, Edgar Adams, Hilde Schrader, John Derbyshire, Carolyn Schuler, and Katie Ledecky. After her are Nida Senff, Greta Johansson, John Arthur Jarvis, Erich Rademacher, Barbara Krause, and Ford Konno.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 264. Before her are Luigi Cantone, Freddie Francis, Nils Karlsson, Larry O'Brien, José Luis Sampedro, and Rudolf Gnägi. After her are Tofig Guliyev, Earl Cameron, Albert Mol, Noboru Terada, Nils Täpp, and Carlo Cassola. Among people deceased in 1996, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 245. Before her are Wálter Guevara, Olle Åhlund, Latifa al-Zayyat, Pavel Solovyov, Václav Hovorka, and Viktor Konovalenko. After her are Petre Steinbach, Duane Hanson, Ali Hatami, Vyacheslav Lemeshev, Rafaela Aparicio, and Walter M. Miller Jr..

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 1,291 out of 6,245. Before her are Akio Kaminaga (1936), Junko Takeuchi (1972), Nobuko Kondo (1956), Bunzō Hayata (1874), Masahiro Hasemi (1945), and Keiji Fujiwara (1964). After her are Eiji Aonuma (1963), Yoshiaki Arata (1924), Mikio Aoki (1934), Takehide Nakatani (1941), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963), and Mamoru Mohri (1948).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 3. Before her are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916), and Shigeo Arai (1916). After her are Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Hideko Maehata (1914), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Daiya Seto (1994), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Ryosuke Irie (1990).

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