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Shigeo Arai

1916 - 1944

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Shigeo Arai (新井 茂雄, Arai Shigeo, August 8, 1916 – July 19, 1944) was a Japanese freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1936 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 4 × 200 m freestyle relay, setting a world record. In the individual 100 m race he finished almost simultaneously with Masanori Yusa and Masaharu Taguchi and was awarded a bronze medal. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shigeo Arai has received more than 30,041 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Shigeo Arai is the 44th most popular swimmer (up from 49th in 2019), the 1,242nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,297th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Swimmer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Shigeo Arai ranks 44 out of 709. Before him are Clarke Scholes, Marie Braun, Irene Guest, Albina Osipowich, Willy den Ouden, and Alexander Popov. After him are Adelaide Lambert, Ethel Lackie, Arne Borg, Galina Prozumenshchikova, Arati Saha, and Fanny Durack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Shigeo Arai ranks 205. Before him are John D. MacDonald, Edward Platt, Irving Wallace, Arnoldo Foà, Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, and Yekaterina Zelenko. After him are Mary Stewart, Anna Yegorova, Ondina Valla, Rostislav Alexeyev, Nancye Wynne Bolton, and Neagu Djuvara. Among people deceased in 1944, Shigeo Arai ranks 253. Before him are Wendell Willkie, Victor Basch, Rudolf Harbig, Ștefania Mărăcineanu, Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, and Jaan Kikkas. After him are Dietrich Kraiss, Josef Lhévinne, Leon Kozłowski, Kustaa Pihlajamäki, C. V. Boys, and Adaviye Efendiyeva.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 1,242 out of 6,245. Before him are Nobuhiro Watsuki (1970), Hitoshi Sasaki (1891), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), Isao Okano (1944), Shōhei Ōoka (1909), and Kei Kumai (1930). After him are Yoko Kanno (1963), Takayuki Kubota (1934), Akira Matsunaga (1948), Kazumi Tsubota (1956), Mitsugu Nomura (1956), and Shinji Okazaki (1986).

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Among SWIMMERS In Japan

Among swimmers born in Japan, Shigeo Arai ranks 2. Before him are Yasuji Miyazaki (1916). After him are Kusuo Kitamura (1917), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Hideko Maehata (1914), Shiro Hashizume (1928), Katsuo Takaishi (1906), Kosuke Kitajima (1982), Daichi Suzuki (1967), Daiya Seto (1994), Kosuke Hagino (1994), and Ryosuke Irie (1990).

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