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Reggie Walker

1889 - 1951

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Reginald Edgar Walker (16 March 1889 in Durban – 5 November 1951) was a South African athlete and the 1908 Olympic champion in the 100 metres.Born in the Colony of Natal, Walker, the 1907 South African Champion, was not among the big favourites for the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics. He even had trouble getting to London, as he lacked the necessary finances until a Natal sportswriter collected funds to support Walker's travel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reggie Walker has received more than 40,382 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Reggie Walker is the 190th most popular athlete (up from 249th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 76th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular South African Athlete.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Reggie Walker ranks 190 out of 3,059. Before him are Friedrich Traun, August Nilsson, Natalya Lisovskaya, Nadezhda Chizhova, Evangelos Damaskos, and Egil Danielsen. After him are William Porter, Lauri Virtanen, Elias Katz, Kipchoge Keino, Birgit Fischer, and Nina Ponomaryova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Reggie Walker ranks 152. Before him are Grigory Levenfish, Otto Deßloch, Sewall Wright, Zhang Qun, W. S. Van Dyke, and Erich Pommer. After him are Ludwig Renn, Anita Malfatti, Joseph Laniel, Zofia Zamenhof, Elmo Lincoln, and Laureano Gómez. Among people deceased in 1951, Reggie Walker ranks 95. Before him are Lippo Hertzka, Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth, Fréhel, István Friedrich, Peter Cheyney, and Angelos Sikelianos. After him are Sabiha Kasimati, André Gobert, Henry Carton de Wiart, Roland Jacobi, Charles Dillon Perrine, and José Enrique Varela.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Reggie Walker ranks 64 out of 374. Before him are Piet Joubert (1834), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Koos de la Rey (1847), David Cooper (1931), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), and Abdullah Ibrahim (1934). After him are Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Navi Pillay (1941), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Laurence Oliphant (1829), and Steve Nash (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In South Africa

Among athletes born in South Africa, Reggie Walker ranks 3. Before him are Oscar Pistorius (1986) and Esther Brand (1922). After him are Sid Atkinson (1901), Bevil Rudd (1894), Marjorie Clark (1909), Caster Semenya (1991), Christian Gitsham (1888), Lawrence Stevens (1913), Clarence Walker (1898), Lillian Board (1948), and Zola Budd (1966).

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