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Pavel Schmidt

1930 - 2001

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Pavel Leo Edmund Schmidt (9 February 1930 – 14 August 2001) was a Slovak rower who competed for Czechoslovakia, mostly in the double sculls together with Václav Kozák. They won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and two medals at European championships in 1959 and 1961, and placed fourth at the 1962 World Rowing Championships. After retiring from competitions, Schmidt became a rowing coach, and in 1967–68 trained the Mexico national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pavel Schmidt has received more than 7,160 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pavel Schmidt is the 647th most popular athlete, the 182nd most popular biography from Slovakia and the 5th most popular Slovak Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pavel Schmidt ranks 647 out of 6,025Before him are Tamás Mendelényi, Wyomia Tyus, Shirley Strickland, Alexander Tikhonov, Bo Lindman, and Maria Mutola. After him are Carl Silfverstrand, Maurice Greene, Anni Steuer, Ottavio Missoni, Jean Cau, and Bruno Junk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Pavel Schmidt ranks 402Before him are Alphonse Alley, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Abbey Lincoln, Atef Sedky, Nina Grebeshkova, and Schafik Hándal. After him are Grace Lee Whitney, Allan Bloom, John Romita Sr., Smail Hamdani, Alan Shugart, and István Mészáros. Among people deceased in 2001, Pavel Schmidt ranks 232Before him are Dmitry Polyansky, Stanislav Rostotsky, Sergio Mantovani, Milorad B. Protić, Nancye Wynne Bolton, and Christl Haas. After him are Francis Bebey, Bill Roberts, Leonid Ostrovski, Frans De Mulder, Jacques-Louis Lions, and Gerhard Stoltenberg.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Pavel Schmidt ranks 182 out of 418Before him are Imrich Stacho (1931), József Csermák (1932), Andrei Glanzmann (1907), Janko Alexy (1894), Martin Kukučín (1860), and Jozef Čapkovič (1948). After him are Ludwig Schlesinger (1864), Ján Hollý (1785), Ján Zachara (1928), Vladimir Oravsky (1947), Stanislav Seman (1952), and Martin Benka (1888).

Among ATHLETES In Slovakia

Among athletes born in Slovakia, Pavel Schmidt ranks 5Before him are Alajos Szokolyi (1871), Vladimír Dzurilla (1942), Imre Németh (1917), and József Csermák (1932). After him are Ferenc Sidó (1923), Béla Szepes (1903), Dušan Pašek (1960), Jozef Pribilinec (1960), Imrich Bugár (1955), Michal Martikán (1979), and Elena Kaliská (1972).