ATHLETE

Manuel Plaza

1900 - 1969

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Manuel Jesús Plaza Reyes ((17 March 1900 – 9 February 1969) was a Chilean athlete who won the country's first Olympic medal. He earned a silver medal in the marathon at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, finishing with a time of 2 hours, 33 minutes, and 23 seconds, just 26 seconds behind French runner Boughéra El Ouafi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Plaza has received more than 21,055 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Manuel Plaza is the 1,385th most popular athlete (down from 379th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Chile (down from 96th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chilean Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Manuel Plaza ranks 1,385 out of 6,025. Before him are John Anderson, Eino Purje, Ursula Donath, Heinz Pollay, Raymond Flacher, and Hartwig Gauder. After him are Jesse Mashburn, Tadeusz Ślusarski, Bernd Cullmann, Liselott Linsenhoff, Valerio Perentin, and Maximilian Raub.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Manuel Plaza ranks 284. Before him are Ernst Ising, Mark Sandrich, André Chamson, Alfredo Dinale, Eino Purje, and William Haines. After him are Aristidis Akratopoulos, Jack Cameron, Leon Kruczkowski, Roland Penrose, Willie Brown, and Alfredo Porzio. Among people deceased in 1969, Manuel Plaza ranks 222. Before him are Ben Alexander, Commodore Cochran, Bogumił Kobiela, Leonard Chess, Raymond Flacher, and Viktor Vinogradov. After him are Muhammad Fareed Didi, Rodolfo Choperena, Petras Klimas, Natalie Talmadge, Magic Sam, and Olga Oelkers.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Manuel Plaza ranks 162 out of 321. Before him are Rolando García (1942), Humberto Cruz (1939), Enrique Hormazábal (1931), Carlos Contreras (1938), María Teresa Ruiz (1946), and Sergio Valdés (1933). After him are José Luis Sierra (1968), Roberto Cortés (1905), Luis Eyzaguirre (1939), Ignacio Prieto (1943), Fernando Roldán (1921), and Adolfo Nef (1946).

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Among ATHLETES In Chile

Among athletes born in Chile, Manuel Plaza ranks 2. Before him are Marlene Ahrens (1933). After him are Ramón Tapia (1932), Óscar Cristi (1916), Josefina Tapia (2002), Rose-Lee Numa (1997), Gabriel Kehr (1996), Bárbara Riveros (1987), Diego Moya (1998), Marco Grimalt (1989), Amane Beriso Shankule (1991), and Cecilia Pérez (1974).

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