1959 - Today
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 76,012 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Petra Felke is the 1,142nd most popular athlete (down from 734th in 2019), the 4,670th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,078th in 2019) and the 84th most popular German Athlete.
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Among athletes, Petra Felke ranks 1,142 out of 3,059. Before her are Anna Dresden-Polak, Lennart Strand, Erich Herrmann, Carl Abrahamsson, Jutta Heine, and Edera Cordiale. After her are Achille Paroche, Volker Beck, Nina Otkalenko, Ali Mirzaei, Juris Silovs, and Arthur Harnden.
1906 - 1943
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 1,136
1921 - 2004
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 1,137
1914 - 1989
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 1,138
1896 - 1948
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 1,139
1940 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 1,140
1920 - 1993
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 1,141
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 1,142
1868 - 1933
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 1,143
1956 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 1,144
1928 - 2015
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 1,145
1929 - 2020
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 1,146
1950 - 2018
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 1,147
1924 - 2016
HPI: 42.53
Rank: 1,148
Among people born in 1959, Petra Felke ranks 357. Before her are Valeria Ciavatta, John J. Sullivan, Mairead McGuinness, Kim Duk-koo, Gelindo Bordin, and Stanley Jordan. After her are Vagiz Khidiyatullin, Lene Hau, Fredric Lehne, Jari Puikkonen, Hisashi Kaneko, and Elizabeth Peña.
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.71
Rank: 351
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.66
Rank: 352
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.63
Rank: 353
1959 - 1982
HPI: 42.62
Rank: 354
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.61
Rank: 355
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 356
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 357
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.41
Rank: 358
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.36
Rank: 359
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.32
Rank: 360
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.30
Rank: 361
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.28
Rank: 362
1959 - 2014
HPI: 42.26
Rank: 363
Among people born in Germany, Petra Felke ranks 4,670 out of 6,142. Before her are Reinhard Lauck (1946), Erich Herrmann (1914), Wilhelm Bungert (1939), Jutta Heine (1940), Ralf König (1960), and Harald Schmidt (1957). After her are Irmtraud Morgner (1933), Volker Beck (1956), Heinz Prüfer (1896), Siegmar Wätzlich (1947), Jürgen Hennig (1951), and Sandra Nasić (1976).
1946 - 1997
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 4,664
1914 - 1989
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 4,665
1939 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 4,666
1940 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 4,667
1960 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 4,668
1957 - Present
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 4,669
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 4,670
1933 - 1990
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 4,671
1956 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 4,672
1896 - 1934
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 4,673
1947 - 2019
HPI: 42.54
Rank: 4,674
1951 - Present
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 4,675
1976 - Present
HPI: 42.50
Rank: 4,676
Among athletes born in Germany, Petra Felke ranks 84. Before her are Jörg Drehmel (1945), Willi Horn (1909), Helga Seidler (1949), Ilona Gusenbauer (1947), Erich Herrmann (1914), and Jutta Heine (1940). After her are Volker Beck (1956), Albert Zürner (1890), Jan Frodeno (1981), Hildegard Falck (1949), Gunhild Hoffmeister (1944), and Rainer Schmidt (1948).
1945 - Present
HPI: 42.72
Rank: 78
1909 - 1989
HPI: 42.72
Rank: 79
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.71
Rank: 80
1947 - Present
HPI: 42.60
Rank: 81
1914 - 1989
HPI: 42.58
Rank: 82
1940 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 83
1959 - Present
HPI: 42.56
Rank: 84
1956 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Rank: 85
1890 - 1920
HPI: 42.50
Rank: 86
1981 - Present
HPI: 42.34
Rank: 87
1949 - Present
HPI: 42.34
Rank: 88
1944 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 89
1948 - Present
HPI: 42.22
Rank: 90