ATHLETE

Naoto Tajima

1912 - 1990

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Naoto Tajima (田島 直人, Tajima Naoto, August 15, 1912 – December 4, 1990) was a Japanese athlete who competed at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics. In 1932 he finished sixth in the long jump, while in 1936 he finished third in the long jump, behind Jesse Owens and Luz Long, and won the triple jump event, setting a world record at 16.00 m. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naoto Tajima has received more than 161,197 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Naoto Tajima is the 145th most popular athlete (down from 91st in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from Japan (down from 735th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Naoto Tajima ranks 145 out of 6,025. Before him are Francisco Lázaro, Harrison Dillard, Herma Bauma, Bernhard Lehmann, Ewa Kłobukowska, and Jüri Lossmann. After him are Angela Voigt, Berit Mørdre, Barbara Jones, Ole Ellefsæter, Myer Prinstein, and Roger Bannister.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Naoto Tajima ranks 153. Before him are Melita Norwood, John Cheever, Béla Király, Günter Wand, Jacques Bergier, and Lev Kopelev. After him are Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Pierre Grimal, Andre Norton, Juan Carlos Aramburu, Rudolf Vytlačil, and Eve Arnold. Among people deceased in 1990, Naoto Tajima ranks 112. Before him are Wolfgang Schmieder, Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Matvey Blanter, Irene Dunne, and Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia. After him are Peter Wessel Zapffe, Andrei Kirilenko, Anne Revere, Grethe Ingmann, John Hansen, and Venedikt Yerofeyev.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoto Tajima ranks 831 out of 6,245. Before him are Takashi Ono (1931), Kuroki Tamemoto (1844), Takiji Kobayashi (1903), Tadashi Yanai (1949), Itō Sukeyuki (1843), and Isao Iwabuchi (1933). After him are Goro Shimura (1930), Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), Toshio Miyaji (null), Sō Yoshitoshi (1568), Hitoshi Igarashi (1947), and Kōichi Kido (1889).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Naoto Tajima ranks 2. Before him are Shizo Kanakuri (1891). After him are Kinue Hitomi (1907), Mikio Oda (1905), Isao Okano (1944), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Noboru Terada (1917), Masao Harada (1912), Masaru Furukawa (1936), and Tetsuo Hamuro (1917).

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