SWIMMER

Rebecca Adlington

1989 - Today

Photo of Rebecca Adlington

Icon of person Rebecca Adlington

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 2,515,852 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Rebecca Adlington is the 603rd most popular swimmer (down from 421st in 2019), the 8,208th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 7,324th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Swimmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 21.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Rebecca Adlington ranks 603 out of 709. Before her are Beth Botsford, Shi Jinglin, Tang Yi, Joanne Jackson, Eric Shanteau, and Alia Atkinson. After her are Ippei Watanabe, Angie Bainbridge, Federico Burdisso, Duncan Scott, Gergő Kis, and Katsuhiro Matsumoto.

Most Popular Swimmers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Rebecca Adlington ranks 1,436. Before her are Matthew Centrowitz Jr., Makoto Oda, Ryan McGowan, Barry Douglas, Sabien Lilaj, and Víctor Ibáñez. After her are Fábio Aguiar, Keita Tanaka, Frederik Andersen, MarShon Brooks, Henik Luiz de Andrade, and Zhang Chenglong.

Others Born in 1989

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rebecca Adlington ranks 8,208 out of 8,785. Before her are Galal Yafai (1992), Barry Douglas (1989), Tom Lawrence (1994), Katherine Grainger (1975), Joanne Jackson (1986), and James Garner (2001). After her are Aaron Hickey (2002), Kurt Maflin (1983), Alexander Sims (1988), Leon Best (1986), Tom Carroll (1992), and Ruby Barnhill (2004).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among SWIMMERS In United Kingdom

Among swimmers born in United Kingdom, Rebecca Adlington ranks 24. Before her are Duncan Goodhew (1957), Gemma Spofforth (1987), Mark Foster (1970), David Davies (1985), Liam Tancock (1985), and Joanne Jackson (1986). After her are Duncan Scott (1997), Ben Proud (1994), Andrew Wilson (1993), James Guy (1995), Kathleen Dawson (1997), and Jazmin Carlin (1990).

British born Swimmers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous