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Marga Petersen

1919 - 2002

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Marga Petersen (German pronunciation: [ˈmaʁɡaː ˈpeːtɐzn̩] ; 18 September 1919 in Bremen – 22 September 2002 in Ottersberg) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the sprints. She competed for West Germany in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 × 100 metres where she won the silver medal with her teammates Ursula Knab, 80 metre hurdles bronze medalist Maria Sander and Helga Klein. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marga Petersen has received more than 9,752 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Marga Petersen is the 1,927th most popular athlete (down from 1,564th in 2019), the 5,573rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,928th in 2019) and the 172nd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Marga Petersen ranks 1,927 out of 6,025. Before her are Adolf Möller, Lars Riedel, Frode Andresen, Harry Watson, Ferenc Mohácsi, and Denis Oswald. After her are Joseph Vissers, Burton Jastram, Claudia Testoni, Jasna Kolar-Merdan, Miroslav Poljak, and Hugo Wieslander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Marga Petersen ranks 328. Before her are Shirley Clarke, Nellie Connally, Pauline Betz, Jack McGrath, Henriette Avram, and Cornelia Fort. After her are Phyllis Thaxter, Fenny Heemskerk, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Norman Lane, Leopold Neumer, and Kaifi Azmi. Among people deceased in 2002, Marga Petersen ranks 324. Before her are George Alec Effinger, Satish Dhawan, Tadeusz Rut, Pratima Barua Pandey, Tom Dowd, and Renato Pirocchi. After her are Jam Master Jay, Krishan Kant, Jürgen Werner, Dave Williams, Robert L. Forward, and Pat Flaherty.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marga Petersen ranks 5,573 out of 7,253. Before her are Adolf Möller (1877), Lars Riedel (1967), Stephan Engels (1960), Manuela Schwesig (1974), Frank Baumann (1975), and Harald Nickel (1953). After her are Demis Nikolaidis (1973), Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann (1837), Reinhard Häfner (1952), Jürgen Werner (1935), Gerd Zewe (1950), and Leopold Löwenheim (1878).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Marga Petersen ranks 172. Before her are Margitta Pufe (1952), Frank Rühle (1944), Beate Koch (1967), Jürgen Hingsen (1958), Adolf Möller (1877), and Lars Riedel (1967). After her are Leni Schmidt (1906), Franz Keller (1945), Manfred Germar (1935), Helmut Hamann (1912), Thomas Lange (1964), and Siegfried Brietzke (1952).

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