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Rebecca Adlington

1989 - Today

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Rebecca Adlington (born 17 February 1989) is an English former competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events in international competition. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800-metre final. Adlington was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rebecca Adlington has received more than 1,916,180 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Rebecca Adlington is the 421st most popular swimmer (down from 355th in 2019), the 7,343rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,644th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Swimmer.

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  • 18.91

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Rebecca Adlington ranks 421 out of 392. Before her are Rozaliya Nasretdinova, Ippei Watanabe, Samantha Riley, Sergey Fesikov, Gergő Kis, and Duncan Scott. After her are Garrett Weber-Gale, Penny Oleksiak, Alia Atkinson, Maggie Mac Neil, Fernando Scheffer, and Megan Jendrick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Rebecca Adlington ranks 1,329. Before her are Henik Luiz de Andrade, Tsubasa Yokotake, Kyohei Kuroki, Sho Hanai, Marcus Daniell, and Richard Kilty. After her are Jhonatan da Silva Pereira, Keita Tanaka, Daisuke Watabe, Barry Bannan, Marcus Ellis, and Lu Chunlong.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rebecca Adlington ranks 7,343 out of 7,765. Before her are Ruel (2002), Efe Sodje (1972), Duncan Scott (1997), Richard Kilty (1989), Owain Doull (1993), and Iain Percy (1976). After her are Lisa Evans (1992), Max Kilman (1997), Alex Gregory (1984), Conor Washington (1992), Barry Bannan (1989), and Marcus Ellis (1989).

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Among SWIMMERS In United Kingdom

Among swimmers born in United Kingdom, Rebecca Adlington ranks 11. Before her are Judy Grinham (1939), Tom Dean (2000), Spyridon Gianniotis (1980), Adam Peaty (1994), Duncan Goodhew (1957), and Duncan Scott (1997). After her are James Guy (1995), Gemma Spofforth (1987), Joanne Jackson (1986), Liam Tancock (1985), Ben Proud (1994), and James Wilby (1993).

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