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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kusuo Kitamura has received more than 28,740 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Kusuo Kitamura is the 29th most popular swimmer (up from 37th in 2019), the 1,193rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,131st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 29 out of 392. Before her are Katalin Szőke, Greta Johansson, Oleksandr Sydorenko, Henry Taylor, Frederick Lane, and Helene Madison. After her are Clarke Scholes, Ferenc Csik, Ian Thorpe, George Hodgson, Max Schöne, and Hilde Schrader.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 232. Before her are Fyodor Khitruk, Henry Carlsson, Marion Donovan, Earl Cameron, Helena Rasiowa, and Gonzalo Rojas. After her are Barbro Kollberg, Nils Karlsson, Robert Lowell, Joshua Nkomo, Juan Tuñas, and Edgar Barth. Among people deceased in 1996, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 218. Before her are N. T. Rama Rao, Hermann Kesten, Birgit Brüel, Anni Steuer, José dos Santos Lopes, and Bernhard Klodt. After her are McLean Stevenson, Gino Bramieri, William Bonin, Walter M. Miller Jr., Ludovico Avio, and Wálter Guevara.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 1,193 out of 6,048. Before her are Hidetaka Miyazaki (1974), Kei Nishikori (1989), Tetsuya Komuro (1958), Katsuko Saruhashi (1920), Kaz Hirai (1960), and Isao Okano (1944). After her are Keiko Awaji (1933), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), Keiji Fujiwara (1964), Shoko Hamada (1950), Namie Amuro (1977), and Sanae Mishima (1957).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Kusuo Kitamura ranks 2. Before her are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916). After her are Shigeo Arai (1916), Hideko Maehata (1914), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Daiya Seto (1994), Ryosuke Irie (1990), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Takeshi Matsuda (1984).

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