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Markus Rühl

1972 - Today

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Markus Rühl (born 22 February 1972, in Darmstadt, West Germany) is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder. Rühl began training at the age of 19 following a doctor's recommendation after sustaining a knee injury while playing football. At 120 kilograms (260 lb), Rühl began training hard six days a week until deciding to compete on a professional level five years later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Markus Rühl has received more than 1,088,017 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Markus Rühl is the 826th most popular athlete (down from 744th in 2019), the 4,803rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,378th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Athlete.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.86

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  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Markus Rühl ranks 826 out of 6,025. Before him are Glenn Hardin, Janet Moreau, Henri Lepage, Per Berlin, Nils Hellsten, and Kōkichi Tsuburaya. After him are Lewis Sheldon, Eero Lehtonen, Eva Janko, Achille Paroche, Roger Beaufrand, and Kusuma Wardhani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Markus Rühl ranks 179. Before him are Jenny McCarthy, Tego Calderón, RedOne, Leonor Varela, Michael Lucas, and Missi Pyle. After him are Judith Godrèche, Mark Hoppus, Alfonso Pérez, Mark Schwarzer, Mark Owen, and Yuichi Nishimura.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Markus Rühl ranks 4,803 out of 7,253. Before him are Manuel Göttsching (1952), Tino Chrupalla (1975), Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1946), Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1694), Melchior von Diepenbrock (1798), and Hermann Hirt (1865). After him are Dietrich Thurau (1954), Edzard Ernst (1948), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), Klaus Sammer (1942), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), and Elena Solovey (1947).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Markus Rühl ranks 63. Before him are Arthur Jonath (1909), Ernst Krebs (1906), Martina Hellmann (1960), Christoph Höhne (1941), Monika Zehrt (1952), and Arno Bieberstein (1886). After him are Rita Kühne (1947), Oscar Goßler (1875), Ludwig Stubbendorf (1906), Martha Genenger (1911), Hermann Wilker (1874), and Gustav Goßler (1879).

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