CYCLIST

Rudolph Lewis

1887 - 1933

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Rudolph Ludewyk "Okey" Lewis (12 July 1887 – 29 October 1933) was a South African road racing cyclist who won the gold medal in the road race at the 1912 Summer Olympics.Lewis was born on a farm near Pretoria and grew up in Germiston. He worked full-time underground at a gold mine, and in spare time trained in cycling, boxing and skating. After the 1912 Olympics he raced professionally in Germany in 1913–14, and won the classic race Rund um Dresden in 1914. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolph Lewis has received more than 12,843 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Rudolph Lewis is the 113th most popular cyclist (up from 148th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 99th in 2019) and the most popular South African Cyclist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Rudolph Lewis has had the most page views in the with 466 views, followed by Afrikaans (451), and Finnish (424). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Turkish (38.19%), Egyptian Arabic (33.05%), and Welsh (32.56%)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Rudolph Lewis ranks 113 out of 1,613. Before him are Guido Messina, Marino Basso, Pedro Delgado, Alexander Vinokourov, Francesco Camusso, and Marcel Kint. After him are Peter Post, Robert Marchand, Rolf Wolfshohl, Fritz Schär, Albert Richter, and Hippolyte Aucouturier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Rudolph Lewis ranks 188. Before him are Yuri Shaporin, Amadeo García, Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics, Lajos Kassák, Oskar Luts, and Waloddi Weibull. After him are Harold Lockwood, Géza Csáth, Julius Pokorny, Benjamin Glazer, Igor Severyanin, and Arcadio Larraona Saralegui. Among people deceased in 1933, Rudolph Lewis ranks 99. Before him are Antonín Švehla, José Malhoa, L. A. Ring, Julius Klengel, Apollinary Vasnetsov, and Kamini Roy. After him are Steponas Darius, Anthony Hope, George Saling, George Calnan, Jimmie Rodgers, and György Almásy.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Rudolph Lewis ranks 87 out of 454. Before him are Louis Raymond (1895), Piet Retief (1780), Jamie Uys (1921), Helen Suzman (1917), J. G. Strijdom (1893), and Claude Chevalley (1909). After him are Basil van Rooyen (1939), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Gary Player (1935), Eben Dönges (1898), Deon Meyer (1958), and Ingrid Jonker (1933).

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Among CYCLISTS In South Africa

Among cyclists born in South Africa, Rudolph Lewis ranks 1. After him are Thomas Shardelow (1931), Robert Fowler (1931), Alfred Swift (1931), Daryl Impey (1984), Burry Stander (1987), Robbie Hunter (1977), Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (1989), Louis Meintjes (1992), Greg Minnaar (1981), Ryan Cox (1979), and Ryan Gibbons (1994).

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