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Lorne Loomer

1937 - 2017

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Lorne Kenneth Loomer (March 11, 1937 – January 1, 2017) was a Canadian competition rower and Olympic champion. He received a gold medal in coxless fours at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, together with Archibald MacKinnon, Walter D'Hondt and Donald Arnold. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lorne Loomer has received more than 12,365 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lorne Loomer is the 2,328th most popular athlete, the 740th most popular biography from Canada and the 44th most popular Canadian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lorne Loomer ranks 2,328 out of 6,025Before him are Mary Washburn, Nikolai Sologubov, David Curtiss Munson, Maureen Gardner, Mel Pender, and Abel Kiviat. After him are Margit Schumann, Lyubov Gurina, Celina Jesionowska, Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Ramona Neubert, and John Ngugi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Lorne Loomer ranks 535Before him are Del Harris, Elinor Donahue, Bruce Johnstone, Jenő Kamuti, Bessie Head, and Mel Pender. After him are Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Jarosława Jóźwiakowska, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Bob Boozer, and Joseph Wambaugh. Among people deceased in 2017, Lorne Loomer ranks 600Before him are Ian Stewart, Dudley Storey, Nelsan Ellis, Sotsha Dlamini, Simon Dickie, and Bruce Forsyth. After him are Margit Schumann, Peggy Cummins, Uli Vos, Jim Bunning, George Avakian, and Nat Hentoff.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Lorne Loomer ranks 740 out of 1,622Before him are Bianca Beauchamp (1977), Fikayo Tomori (1997), E. Pauline Johnson (1861), Keegan Connor Tracy (1971), Hart Bochner (1956), and Robbie Amell (1988). After him are Joe Sakic (1969), Henry Lau (1989), Alice Eastwood (1859), Horst Bulau (1962), Cliff Thorburn (1948), and Christian Cage (1973).

Among ATHLETES In Canada

Among athletes born in Canada, Lorne Loomer ranks 44Before him are Frank Amyot (1904), Walter Byron (1894), Hayley Wickenheiser (1978), Dean Crawford (1958), Harold McMunn (1902), and Tommy Gorman (1886). After him are Chris Bumstead (1995), Nelson Kuhn (1937), Cyril Slater (1896), Romeo Rivers (1907), Pete Desjardins (1907), and Aileen Meagher (1910).