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Petra Felke

1959 - Today

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Petra Meier (née Felke; born 30 July 1959) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. Representing East Germany, she became the Olympic Champion in 1988 and broke the world record four times between 1985 and 1988. She is the only woman to throw a javelin 80 metres or more, with her world record of 80.00 m (262 ft 5 1⁄2 in). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petra Felke has received more than 82,990 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Petra Felke is the 738th most popular athlete (up from 1,141st in 2019), the 4,689th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,656th in 2019) and the 50th most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Petra Felke ranks 738 out of 6,025. Before her are Tatyana Anisimova, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Ingrid Auerswald, Karl Johan Svensson, Akio Kaminaga, and Doug Rogers. After her are Arthur Harnden, Robert Lindsay, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Chi Cheng, Christa Stubnick, and Zdeněk Pecka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Petra Felke ranks 261. Before her are Choi Kang-hee, Kirsty MacColl, Rahm Emanuel, Fran Walsh, Sito Pons, and Martin Brundle. After her are Valdemaras Chomičius, Gerd Wessig, Stephen Chow, Ulrich Matthes, Rodrigo García, and Prithvirajsing Roopun.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Petra Felke ranks 4,689 out of 7,253. Before her are Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), Frank Mill (1958), Benedikt Höwedes (1988), Otto Rühle (1874), Ingrid Auerswald (1957), and Friedrich L. Bauer (1924). After her are Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Hans Jakob (1908), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Christa Stubnick (1933), Wolf Erlbruch (1948), and Norbert Nigbur (1948).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Petra Felke ranks 50. Before her are Elfriede Kaun (1914), Bärbel Wöckel (1955), Hartmut Briesenick (1949), Ingrid Becker (1942), Fritz Schwab (1919), and Ingrid Auerswald (1957). After her are Christa Stubnick (1933), Gerd Wessig (1959), Manfred Kokot (1948), Annegret Richter (1950), Kristin Otto (1966), and Ulf Timmermann (1962).

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