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Luz Long

1913 - 1943

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Carl Ludwig "Luz" Long (27 April 1913 – 14 July 1943) was a German Olympic long jumper, notable for achieving the silver medal in the event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for his association with Jesse Owens, who went on to win the gold medal for the long jump. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luz Long has received more than 2,131,343 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Luz Long is the 11th most popular athlete (down from 7th in 2019), the 820th most popular biography from Germany (down from 517th in 2019) and the most popular German Athlete.

Luz Long was a German Olympic athlete who helped Jesse Owens win a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Luz Long ranks 11 out of 3,059Before him are Louis Zamperini, Bob Beamon, Spyridon Louis, Carl Lewis, Viktor Saneyev, and Usain Bolt. After him are Sigfrid Edström, Ronnie Coleman, Hannes Kolehmainen, Felix Baumgartner, Dick Fosbury, and Florence Griffith Joyner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Luz Long ranks 43Before him are Artur Axmann, Wolfgang Paul, Roger Wolcott Sperry, René Clément, Willis Lamb, and Gert Fröbe. After him are Mehmet Shehu, Jacobo Árbenz, Masanobu Fukuoka, Charles Trenet, Mark Felt, and Muddy Waters. Among people deceased in 1943, Luz Long ranks 25Before him are Władysław Sikorski, Chaim Soutine, Alexandre Yersin, Jean Moulin, Julius Fučík, and Leslie Howard. After him are Lydia Litvyak, Maurice Denis, Viktor Lutze, Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal, Otto Jespersen, and Max Reinhardt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Luz Long ranks 820 out of 6,142Before him are Paul Reuter (1816), Prince Augustus William of Prussia (1722), August Landmesser (1910), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Frederica of Baden (1781), and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573). After him are Wilhelm Windelband (1848), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Gottfried Feder (1883), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Felix Wankel (1902), and Joseph Wirth (1879).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Luz Long ranks 1After him are Marita Koch (1957), Dora Ratjen (1918), Fritz Hofmann (1871), Rosemarie Ackermann (1952), Armin Hary (1937), Lina Radke (1903), Jürgen Schult (1960), Heike Drechsler (1964), Waldemar Cierpinski (1950), Tilly Fleischer (1911), and Margitta Gummel (1941).