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Leamon King

1936 - 2001

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Leamon King (February 13, 1936 – May 22, 2001) was an American athlete who jointly held the world record for the 100-meter sprint for men from 1956 to 1960. King, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, became joint holder of the record on October 20, 1956 in Ontario, California, with a time of 10.1 seconds, equal with Willie Williams and Ira Murchison, and repeated the time a week later in Santa Ana, California. (In 1956, times were only recorded to the nearest tenth of a second.) Ray Norton also recorded a time of 10.1 seconds in 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leamon King has received more than 33,816 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Leamon King is the 2,086th most popular athlete, the 11,642nd most popular biography from United States and the 365th most popular American Athlete.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Leamon King ranks 2,086 out of 6,025. Before him are Jaouad Gharib, Nezha Bidouane, Foy Draper, Leo Losert, Bruno Visintin, and Elena Horvat. After him are Olga Kuzenkova, Zdravko Hebel, Silvio Leonard, Susan Francia, Sammy Lee, and Seppo Räty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Leamon King ranks 549. Before him are K Callan, Andrew Davies, George Eastham, Adán Godoy, Peter Hill-Wood, and Kalevi Oikarainen. After him are Sylvia Browne, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Jamuna, Rosa María Britton, Jackie Lewis, and Fred Neil. Among people deceased in 2001, Leamon King ranks 322. Before him are Edwin H. Colbert, Horace Gwynne, Bob Tinning, Javed Iqbal, Ronnie Allen, and Tony Ashton. After him are Mike Mansfield, Abraham Beame, Hilda Cameron, Jennifer Syme, Régine Cavagnoud, and Madge Adam.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leamon King ranks 11,642 out of 20,380. Before him are Mitch Miller (1911), Foy Draper (1911), Fiona Apple (1977), June Marlowe (1903), Robert Riskin (1897), and Kenneth Lonergan (1962). After him are Caleb Cushing (1800), Mike Mansfield (1903), Caroline Williams (1957), S. E. Hinton (1948), Arnie Oliver (1907), and Roger Revelle (1909).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Leamon King ranks 365. Before him are Marcell Jacobs (1994), Ira Davenport (1887), Harold Smith (1909), Eddie Hart (1949), Alice Brown (1960), and Foy Draper (1911). After him are Sammy Lee (1920), Marvin Stalder (1905), Mal Whitfield (1924), Josiah McCracken (1874), Charles Thias (1879), and Bruce Harlan (1926).

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