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Per Thorén

1885 - 1962

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Per Ludvig Julius Thorén (26 January 1885 – 5 January 1962) was a Swedish figure skater in the early 20th century who won a bronze medal at the 1908 Olympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Per Thorén has received more than 16,955 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Per Thorén is the 64th most popular skater (down from 61st in 2019), the 779th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 697th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Skater.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Per Thorén ranks 64 out of 483Before him are Odd Lundberg, Evgeni Plushenko, Fritzi Burger, Richard Johansson, Göran Claeson, and Sissy Schwarz. After him are Lilly Scholz, Viktor Kosichkin, Andrea Kékesy, Ludwig Wrede, Oleg Goncharenko, and Eva Pawlik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Per Thorén ranks 197Before him are Marcello Bertinetti, María Grever, Anita Rée, Carl Silfverstrand, Tim Ahearne, and Boris Vilkitsky. After him are Américo Castro, Enrico Porro, José Durand Laguna, Leonida Tonelli, Lajos Tihanyi, and Robert Liottel. Among people deceased in 1962, Per Thorén ranks 159Before him are Purushottam Das Tandon, Viacheslav Ragozin, Jean Stern, Yvette Andréyor, G. M. Trevelyan, and Arseny Golovko. After him are Miklós Szabados, Karen Lachmann, George Preca, Frederick Schule, Willis H. O'Brien, and Ramón Pérez de Ayala.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Per Thorén ranks 779 out of 1,879Before him are Bertha Valerius (1824), Olle Åhlund (1920), Gunnar Olsson (1908), Jeanna Bauck (1840), Bengt Eriksson (1931), and Hanna Pauli (1864). After him are Peter Englund (1957), May Britt (1933), Tore Svensson (1927), Arvid Holmberg (1886), Stefan Schwarz (1969), and Carl Folcker (1889).

Among SKATERS In Sweden

Among skaters born in Sweden, Per Thorén ranks 6Before him are Gillis Grafström (1893), Åke Seyffarth (1919), Sigvard Ericsson (1930), Richard Johansson (1882), and Göran Claeson (1945). After him are Jonny Nilsson (1943), Johnny Höglin (1943), and Nils van der Poel (1996).