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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 140,494 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Naoto Tajima is the 91st most popular athlete (down from 75th in 2019), the 737th most popular biography from Japan (down from 692nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Naoto Tajima ranks 91 out of 3,059Before him are Archie Hahn, Eric Lemming, Inese Jaunzeme, Ibolya Csák, Eric Liddell, and Milkha Singh. After him are Fritz Hofmann, Stefka Kostadinova, Gaston Reiff, Vladimír Dzurilla, Aleksander Klumberg, and Pyotr Bolotnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Naoto Tajima ranks 133Before him are Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Alexey Sudayev, Jacques Bergier, Kathleen Ferrier, Folco Lulli, and Aymoré Moreira. After him are Kurt Sanderling, Rihei Sano, Martin Schwarzschild, Kristina Söderbaum, Charles Addams, and Béla Király. Among people deceased in 1990, Naoto Tajima ranks 96Before him are Paul Tortelier, Horst Sindermann, Stefano Casiraghi, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Wolfgang Schmieder, and George de Mestral. After him are Martin Ritt, Del Shannon, Irene Dunne, Patriarch Pimen I of Moscow, Carlos Peucelle, and Gordon Bunshaft.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoto Tajima ranks 737 out of 6,048Before him are Amélie Nothomb (1967), Higaonna Kanryō (1853), Naomi Osaka (1997), Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539), Ryōkan (1758), and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955). After him are Uichiro Hatta (1903), Ashikaga Yoshinori (1394), Takako Shimazu (1939), Rihei Sano (1912), Ariwara no Narihira (825), and Katō Tomosaburō (1861).

Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Naoto Tajima ranks 2Before him are Shizo Kanakuri (1891). After him are Kinue Hitomi (1907), Sueo Ōe (1914), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Mikio Oda (1905), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Isao Okano (1944), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Naohiro Ikeda (1940), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), and Kim Eui-tae (1941).