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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 24,825 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Pál Kovács is the 11th most popular fencer (up from 19th in 2019), the 352nd most popular biography from Hungary (up from 425th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Fencer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Pál Kovács ranks 11 out of 174. Before him are Gianluigi Saccaro, Ramón Fonst, Endre Kabos, Helene Mayer, Paul Anspach, and Elena Belova. After him are Attila Petschauer, Lucien Gaudin, Manuel Díaz, János Garay, Aldo Nadi, and Gaston Alibert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Pál Kovács ranks 178. Before him are Luiz Gonzaga, Ioannis Alevras, Yusuf Lule, B. D. Jatti, Sabiha Kasimati, and Agnes Martin. After him are Wilfrid Sellars, István Örkény, Sándor Végh, Sabicas, Roger Courtois, and Juan Carlos Aramburu. Among people deceased in 1995, Pál Kovács ranks 152. Before him are Georges Candilis, Mordechai Gur, Oles Honchar, Ioannis Alevras, Kukrit Pramoj, and Jesús Garay. After him are Alexander Kaidanovsky, Gisela Mauermayer, John Cairncross, Sergio Bertoni, Werner Liebrich, and Ingo Schwichtenberg.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Pál Kovács ranks 352 out of 866. Before him are Bertalan Farkas (1949), George Gerbner (1919), József Eötvös (1813), Miklós Ybl (1814), Móric Esterházy (1881), and László Fazekas (1947). After him are István Örkény (1912), Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin (1855), Zsigmond Móricz (1879), Nándor Dáni (1871), Igor Grabar (1871), and Imre Földi (1938).

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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 Attila Petschauer (1904), János Garay (1889), Rudolf Kárpáti (1920), Oszkár Gerde (1883), Lajos Werkner (1883), György Piller (1899), Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (1937), Dezső Földes (1880), Sándor Pósta (1888), and Győző Kulcsár (1940).

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