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Pál Kovács

1912 - 1995

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Pál Kovács (17 July 1912 – 8 July 1995) was a Hungarian athlete, who began as a hurdler, but eventually switched to fencing. By the time Kovács won his first fencing gold, in 1936, he had already been a member of the winning Hungarian team at the 1933 World Championships. The Hungarians won team sabre gold in five successive Olympics, lasting from 1936 until 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pál Kovács has received more than 28,101 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Pál Kovács is the 10th most popular fencer (up from 11th in 2019), the 359th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Fencer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Pál Kovács ranks 10 out of 349. Before him are Ilona Elek, Helene Mayer, Paul Anspach, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, and Olga Szabó-Orbán. After him are Elena Belova, Manuel Díaz, Henri Anspach, Gianluigi Saccaro, Lucien Gaudin, and Gaston Alibert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Pál Kovács ranks 175. Before him are Claude Pompidou, Nie Er, Nick Cravat, Pietro Ferraris, Campanal I, and Ioannis Alevras. After him are Palle Huld, Alexey Sudayev, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Romain Maes, José Iraragorri, and István Örkény. Among people deceased in 1995, Pál Kovács ranks 155. Before him are Friz Freleng, Jüri Järvet, Willem Frederik Hermans, Ioannis Alevras, Claudio Brook, and Ingo Schwichtenberg. After him are Eva Gabor, Mickey Mantle, Eric Porter, Katarina Taikon, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, and Koloman Gögh.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Pál Kovács ranks 359 out of 1,077. Before him are Bertalan Farkas (1949), József Eötvös (1813), Nándor Dáni (1871), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Ervin Zádor (1935), and Vilmos Zsigmond (1930). After him are Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894), Éva Székely (1927), Ferenc Kölcsey (1790), Eva Gabor (1919), József Rippl-Rónai (1861), and Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867).

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Among FENCERS In Hungary

Among fencers born in Hungary, Pál Kovács ranks 2. Before him are Ilona Elek (1907). After him are Rudolf Kárpáti (1920), János Garay (1889), Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (1937), Oszkár Gerde (1883), Attila Petschauer (1904), Győző Kulcsár (1940), Lajos Werkner (1883), György Piller (1899), Dezső Földes (1880), and Péter Tóth (1882).

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