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Myer Prinstein

1878 - 1925

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Myer Prinstein (born Mejer Prinsztejn, December 22, 1878 – March 10, 1925) was a Polish American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club in Queens, New York. A 1902 law graduate and track team captain for Syracuse University, after college he became a New York real estate lawyer and businessman while living in Jamaica Plains, Queens. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Myer Prinstein has received more than 43,825 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Myer Prinstein is the 150th most popular athlete (down from 77th in 2019), the 633rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 498th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Myer Prinstein ranks 150 out of 6,025. Before him are Jüri Lossmann, Naoto Tajima, Angela Voigt, Berit Mørdre, Barbara Jones, and Ole Ellefsæter. After him are Roger Bannister, Robert Hennet, Ken McArthur, Naim Süleymanoğlu, John Carlos, and Silvio Cator.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Myer Prinstein ranks 108. Before him are Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Michel Théato, Anna Demidova, Egon Friedell, Carl Sandburg, and Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova. After him are J. F. C. Fuller, Clara Westhoff, Ioannis Rallis, Karl Buresch, Walther Ritz, and Takeo Arishima. Among people deceased in 1925, Myer Prinstein ranks 80. Before him are Yevgenia Bosch, Alexander Miasnikian, Pablo Iglesias Posse, Hugo Preuß, Jaap Eden, and Princess Therese of Bavaria. After him are Joel Hastings Metcalf, Julian Marchlewski, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Antonio Ascari, Bajram Curri, and Roger de La Fresnaye.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Myer Prinstein ranks 633 out of 1,694. Before him are Heinrich Graetz (1817), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Peter Berling (1934), Julius von Sachs (1832), Adam Michnik (1946), and Stanisław Szukalski (1893). After him are Leszek Miller (1946), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Władysław Czartoryski (1828), Aleksander Zawadzki (1899), Salomon Morel (1919), and Franciszek Pieczka (1928).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Myer Prinstein ranks 5. Before him are Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Hans Woellke (1911), Gustav Flatow (1875), and Ewa Kłobukowska (1946). After him are Janusz Kusociński (1907), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Ursula Happe (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), and Józef Szmidt (1935).

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