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Peter Snell

1938 - 2019

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Sir Peter George Snell (17 December 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner. He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only man since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, in 1964. Snell had a relatively short career as a world-famous international sportsman, 1960–1965, yet achieved so much that he was voted New Zealand's "Sports Champion of the (20th) Century" and was one of 24 inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame named in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Snell has received more than 371,238 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Peter Snell is the 248th most popular athlete (up from 269th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular New Zealander Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Peter Snell ranks 248 out of 6,025. Before him are Tatyana Kazankina, Erik Lundqvist, John Ljunggren, Frederick Lorz, Ben Adams, and Robert Kerr. After him are Inessa Kravets, Francis Lane, Jonathan Edwards, Marlies Göhr, Volmari Iso-Hollo, and K. D. Jadhav.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Peter Snell ranks 272. Before him are Enzo G. Castellari, Sanjeev Kumar, Marinella, Barry Jackson, Emile Griffith, and Madge Sinclair. After him are Severino Reija, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Shuji Tsurumi, Anna Wierzbicka, Holger Czukay, and Daevid Allen. Among people deceased in 2019, Peter Snell ranks 227. Before him are Elio Sgreccia, John Tate, Alain Barrière, Gene Wolfe, Dick Miller, and Johnny Clegg. After him are Luciano De Crescenzo, Carlo Maria Abate, Julie Adams, Ram Dass, Fernando J. Corbató, and Ndaye Mulamba.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Peter Snell ranks 33 out of 303. Before him are Wynton Rufer (1962), Jonah Lomu (1975), Cindy Kiro (1958), Andrew Niccol (1964), Raymond Firth (1901), and Richard Curtis (1956). After him are Manu Bennett (1969), Clive Revill (1930), Taika Waititi (1975), Janet Frame (1924), Gary Thain (1948), and Rob Hall (1961).

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Among ATHLETES In New Zealand

Among athletes born in New Zealand, Peter Snell ranks 1. After him are Hugh Anderson (1936), Murray Halberg (1933), Yvette Williams (1929), Jack Lovelock (1910), Ross Collinge (1944), John Hunter (1943), Tony Hurt (1946), Trevor Coker (1949), John Walker (1952), Dudley Storey (1939), and Simon Dickie (1951).

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