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Paul Van den Broeck

1904 - 2000

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Paul N. van den Broeck (18 September 1904 – 1 April 1972) was a Belgian bobsledder and ice hockey player who competed during the early 1920s. At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix he won a bronze medal in the four-man bobsleigh event. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Van den Broeck has received more than 7,108 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Paul Van den Broeck is the 1,093rd most popular athlete (down from 946th in 2019), the 718th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 662nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Belgian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Paul Van den Broeck ranks 1,093 out of 6,025Before him are Giovanni Zucchi, Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, P. T. Usha, Henri Guérin, Pentti Hämäläinen, and Lyudmila Kondratyeva. After him are Paul Tergat, Annette Rogers, Valeria Bufanu, Sueo Ōe, Käthe Krauss, and Finn Haunstoft.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Paul Van den Broeck ranks 288Before him are Vladimir Makogonov, Anton Janda, Arthur F. Burns, Henry Dreyfuss, William Primrose, and Phil Harris. After him are Mayo Methot, Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Marcel Capelle, Tinoco, Anders Lange, and Elvio Banchero. Among people deceased in 2000, Paul Van den Broeck ranks 268Before him are Marie Windsor, Henri Hérouin, Paula Yates, Mark Oliphant, Richard Mulligan, and Audun Boysen. After him are Vintilă Cossini, Victor Verschueren, Larry Linville, Petter Hugsted, Barbara Sobotta, and Usha Mehta.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Paul Van den Broeck ranks 718 out of 1,190Before him are Jan Diddens (1906), Walter Planckaert (1948), Marc Millecamps (1950), Oscar De Cock (1881), Lubna Azabal (1973), and Johan Devrindt (1945). After him are Philibert Smellinckx (1911), François Devries (1913), Bart De Wever (1970), Maurice Martens (1947), Victor Verschueren (1893), and Jean Brankart (1930).

Among ATHLETES In Belgium

Among athletes born in Belgium, Paul Van den Broeck ranks 22Before him are Karel Lismont (1949), Jules De Bisschop (1879), Désiré Beaurain (1881), Bob Baetens (1930), Maurice Hemelsoet (1875), and Oscar De Cock (1881). After him are Victor Verschueren (1893), Victor Sonnemans (1874), Aimé Haegeman (1861), Marcel Van Crombrugge (1880), Ferdinand Feyerick (1865), and Joseph Pletincx (1888).