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Pat McCormick

1930 - 2023

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Patricia Joan Keller McCormick (May 12, 1930 – March 7, 2023) was an American competitive diver who won both diving events at two consecutive Summer Olympics, in 1952 and 1956. She won the James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete in the US in 1956 – the second woman to do so, after Ann Curtis. As a child in the 1930s and 1940s she executed dives that were not allowed in competition for female divers (dives reputed to scare most men) and practiced cannonballs off the Los Alamitos Bridge in Long Beach, California Harbor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat McCormick has received more than 17,002 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Pat McCormick is the 342nd most popular athlete (up from 798th in 2019), the 5,254th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,906th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Athlete.

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  • 50.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pat McCormick ranks 342 out of 6,025. Before her are Renate Boy, Alfred Tysoe, Dexter Jackson, Richard Sheldon, Faina Melnik, and Albert Ayat. After her are Ivo Van Damme, Birgit Fischer, Julius Skutnabb, Nicolae Neagoe, Pål Tyldum, and Franjo Mihalić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pat McCormick ranks 323. Before her are Alevtina Kolchina, Albert S. Ruddy, Richard Montague, Wilferd Madelung, Viktor Tsybulenko, and Henri Coppens. After her are Liviu Librescu, Horst Bienek, Joachim Hansen, Hank Mobley, Babushka Lady, and William R. Pogue. Among people deceased in 2023, Pat McCormick ranks 352. Before her are Abraham Lempel, Alfredo Rojas, Bill Hayden, Wilferd Madelung, Renate Boy, and Erkin Koray. After her are Nicolae Neagoe, Russell Banks, Zdeněk Mácal, Fay Weldon, Gordon Lightfoot, and Juan Carlos Sarnari.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pat McCormick ranks 5,254 out of 20,380. Before her are Rosalind E. Krauss (1941), Jack Kramer (1921), Mark Rolston (1956), Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879), Ann Dowd (1956), and Gordon Douglas (1907). After her are Syd Field (1935), Zachary Quinto (1977), Elbert Hubbard (1856), Jessica Drake (1974), Jean Hagen (1923), and Hal Roach (1892).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Pat McCormick ranks 81. Before her are George Horine (1890), William Porter (1926), Bill Nieder (1933), Albert Gutterson (1887), Dexter Jackson (1969), and Richard Sheldon (1878). After her are Morgan Taylor (1903), Bob Kiesel (1911), Charley Paddock (1900), Glenn Davis (1934), Ted Meredith (1891), and Charles Bacon (1885).

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