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Launceston Elliot

1874 - 1930

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Launceston Elliot (9 June 1874 – 8 August 1930) was a Scottish weightlifter, and the first British Olympic champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Launceston Elliot has received more than 82,882 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Launceston Elliot is the 564th most popular athlete (down from 381st in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from India (down from 459th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Indian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Launceston Elliot ranks 564 out of 3,059Before him are Rudolf Harbig, Evelyn Furtsch, Ondina Valla, Ellen Braumüller, Peter Frenkel, and Richmond Landon. After him are Eric Backman, Olga Fikotová, Ragnar Malm, Ilmar Kullam, Betty Cuthbert, and Aimé Haegeman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Launceston Elliot ranks 169Before him are Jan Černý, Carl Størmer, Lucien Démanet, Janko Jesenský, Charles R. Knight, and Sergey Lebedev. After him are Paul Van Asbroeck, Eugène Balme, Mary Garden, Josef Lhévinne, Charles W. Gilmore, and Bunzō Hayata. Among people deceased in 1930, Launceston Elliot ranks 91Before him are Joseph Alzin, Herbert Hall Turner, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Helene Lange, Jens Christian Christensen, and John Russell. After him are Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Leonard Meredith, Gabriel Miró, Gombojab Tsybikov, Šatrijos Ragana, and Rainer Ludwig Claisen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Launceston Elliot ranks 550 out of 1,493Before him are Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Abhijit Banerjee (1961), K. D. Jadhav (1926), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), and Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924). After him are Shrilal Shukla (1925), Devika Rani (1908), Asaf-ud-Daula (1748), Raghunath Murmu (1905), Vijay Mallya (1955), and Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775).

Among ATHLETES In India

Among athletes born in India, Launceston Elliot ranks 5Before him are Charles Gmelin (1872), P. T. Usha (1964), Fauja Singh (1911), and K. D. Jadhav (1926). After him are Godfrey Brown (1915), Udham Singh (1928), Balbir Singh Sr. (1923), Richard Allen (1902), Leslie Claudius (1927), Karnam Malleswari (1975), and Ajit Pal Singh (1947).