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Shirley Babashoff

1957 - Today

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Shirley Frances Babashoff (born January 31, 1957) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. Babashoff set six world records and earned a total of nine Olympic medals in her career. She won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay in both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics, and she won the 1975 world championship in both the 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shirley Babashoff has received more than 159,711 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Shirley Babashoff is the 215th most popular swimmer (down from 145th in 2019), the 13,712th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,425th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Swimmer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shirley Babashoffs by language

Over the past year Shirley Babashoff has had the most page views in the with 12,817 views, followed by Japanese (1,254), and German (1,052). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Eastern Punjabi (661.11%), Catalan (54.77%), and Croatian (32.77%)

Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Shirley Babashoff ranks 215 out of 709. Before her are Andrea Gyarmati, Lillian Watson, Brad Cooper, Matt Vogel, Louis Handley, and Jenny Thompson. After her are Petra Thümer, Josephine McKim, Boy Charlton, Camille Muffat, Sergey Koplyakov, and Judy Grinham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Shirley Babashoff ranks 650. Before her are Phil Murphy, Matt Vogel, Samia al-Amoudi, Ilene Chaiken, Porfirio Armando Betancourt, and Hubert Gardas. After her are Valeria Răcilă, Lorrie Moore, Víctor Rangel, Reena Roy, Gaspar Llamazares, and Kathy Kreiner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shirley Babashoff ranks 13,712 out of 20,380. Before her are Jeff Hornacek (1963), Johnny Mack Brown (1904), Freddy Cannon (1936), Oliver Tree (1993), Helen O'Connell (1920), and Anton Coppola (1917). After her are Pop Smoke (1999), Lena Dunham (1986), Billy Taylor (1921), Alicia Coppola (1968), Janis Carter (1913), and Matt Servitto (1965).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Shirley Babashoff ranks 82. Before her are Dana Vollmer (1987), Jane Barkman (1951), Allison Schmitt (1990), Lillian Watson (1950), Matt Vogel (1957), and Jenny Thompson (1973). After her are Josephine McKim (1910), Pablo Morales (1964), Keena Rothhammer (1957), Janet Evans (1971), Cathy Carr (1954), and Sandy Neilson (1956).

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