SKATER

Ria Baran

1922 - 1986

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Ria Baran (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːa baˈʁaːn] ; 2 November 1922 in Dortmund, Germany – 12 November 1986) was a German pair skater. She skated together with Paul Falk and twice became World champion and in 1952 Olympic champion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ria Baran has received more than 20,200 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ria Baran is the 81st most popular skater (up from 97th in 2019), the 4,898th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,478th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Skater.

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Ria Baran ranks 81 out of 483Before her are Peggy Fleming, James H. Johnson, Marika Kilius, Nikolai Panin, Jacqueline du Bief, and Stien Kaiser. After her are Melitta Brunner, Surya Bonaly, Alena Vrzáňová, Hana Mašková, Yuzuru Hanyu, and Jonny Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Ria Baran ranks 332Before her are Jacques Lataste, Ilmar Kullam, Stoyanka Mutafova, Lidiya Ponomarenko, Luis Aponte Martínez, and Ali Akbar Khan. After her are Giuseppe Casari, Osvaldo Fattori, Jack Kruschen, Muhammetnazar Gapurow, Tony Leblanc, and Lloyd La Beach. Among people deceased in 1986, Ria Baran ranks 225Before her are Noboru Terada, Ramón Alberto Villaverde, Enrique Tierno Galván, Volodymyr Pravyk, Samuel Zauber, and Neerja Bhanot. After her are Olaf Hoffsbakken, Tsendiin Damdinsüren, Dan Pagis, Paul Costello, Blanche Sweet, and Mary Welsh Hemingway.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ria Baran ranks 4,898 out of 7,253Before her are Curt Siodmak (1902), Hans Nowak (1937), Gregor Wentzel (1898), Michael Bella (1945), Herbert Neumann (1953), and Hans Deppe (1897). After her are Kiki Smith (1954), Marita Lange (1943), Horst Faas (1933), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), and Max Lorenz (1939).

Among SKATERS In Germany

Among skaters born in Germany, Ria Baran ranks 9Before her are Ernst Baier (1905), Heinrich Burger (1881), Anna Hübler (1885), Maxi Herber (1920), Gabriele Seyfert (1948), and Marika Kilius (1943). After her are Christa Luding-Rothenburger (1959), Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (1942), Manfred Schnelldorfer (1943), Paul Falk (1921), Claudia Pechstein (1972), and Jan Hoffmann (1955).