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Marlies Göhr

1958 - Today

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Marlies Göhr (née Oelsner, born 21 March 1958 in Gera) is a former East German track and field athlete, the winner of the 100 metres at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twelve straight years, ranking first in six of those years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marlies Göhr has received more than 145,732 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Marlies Göhr is the 252nd most popular athlete (up from 440th in 2019), the 3,666th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,046th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.43

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  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Marlies Göhr ranks 252 out of 6,025. Before her are Ben Adams, Robert Kerr, Peter Snell, Inessa Kravets, Francis Lane, and Jonathan Edwards. After her are Volmari Iso-Hollo, K. D. Jadhav, Miruts Yifter, Evelyne Hall, Nadezhda Chizhova, and Juhani Suutarinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Marlies Göhr ranks 147. Before her are Yuriy Boyko, Marcos Paquetá, Sergei Makarov, Domenico Dolce, Simon Le Bon, and Andreas Wenzel. After her are Giovanni Galli, Rachel Ticotin, Ramadan Shalah, Louise Penny, Sergey Litvinov, and Marina Silva.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marlies Göhr ranks 3,666 out of 7,253. Before her are Gunter d'Alquen (1910), Konrad von Erlichshausen (1390), Reinhard Libuda (1943), Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (1712), Gustav Knuth (1901), and Jean Dufresne (1829). After her are Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern (1924), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1702), Nick Heidfeld (1977), Adolf Busch (1891), and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1700).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Marlies Göhr ranks 23. Before her are Heike Drechsler (1964), Margitta Gummel (1941), Gisela Mauermayer (1913), Renate Stecher (1950), Carl Diem (1882), and Karin Balzer (1938). After her are Karl Hein (1908), Gabriele Reinsch (1963), Birgit Fischer (1962), Marianne Werner (1924), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), and Udo Beyer (1955).

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