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Petra van Staveren

1966 - Today

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Petronella ("Petra") Grietje van Staveren (born 2 June 1966) is a former breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands who won the gold medal in the 100 meter breaststroke at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She also won a bronze at the 1986 world championships and a European silver in 1983 in the 4×100 meter medley relay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petra van Staveren has received more than 19,584 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Petra van Staveren is the 264th most popular swimmer (down from 161st in 2019), the 1,220th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 1,077th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Dutch Swimmer.

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  • 35.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Petra van Staveren ranks 264 out of 709. Before her are Aaron Peirsol, Tom Jager, Park Tae-hwan, Zoltán Verrasztó, Dara Torres, and Florent Manaudou. After her are Jolanda de Rover, Lars Frölander, Anders Holmertz, Marleen Veldhuis, Gemma Mengual, and Britta Steffen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Petra van Staveren ranks 699. Before her are Vitaliy Savin, Olena Demyanenko, Roopa Ganguly, Gina Bellman, Nina Morato, and Zhai Zhigang. After her are Thomas Schäfer, Vladimir Tatarchuk, Akosua Busia, Peter Artner, Vijayashanti, and Alla Zahaikevych.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Petra van Staveren ranks 1,220 out of 1,646. Before her are Steven Kruijswijk (1987), Kenny Tete (1995), Quincy Owusu-Abeyie (1986), Peter Hoekstra (1973), Wilco Kelderman (1991), and Ingrid Haringa (1964). After her are Kenneth Vermeer (1986), Mark Flekken (1993), Ho-Pin Tung (1982), Michaëlla Krajicek (1989), Patrick Paauwe (1975), and Jolanda de Rover (1963).

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Among SWIMMERS In Netherlands

Among swimmers born in Netherlands, Petra van Staveren ranks 14. Before her are Pieter van den Hoogenband (1978), Nel van Vliet (1926), Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (1925), Ada Kok (1947), Inge de Bruijn (1973), and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (1990). After her are Jolanda de Rover (1963), Marleen Veldhuis (1979), Inge Dekker (1985), Maarten van der Weijden (1981), Arno Kamminga (1995), and Sharon van Rouwendaal (1993).

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