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Shizo Kanakuri

1891 - 1983

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Shizo Kanakuri (金栗 四三, Kanaguri Shisō, 20 August 1891 – 13 November 1983) was a Japanese marathon runner celebrated as the "father of marathon" in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shizo Kanakuri has received more than 645,526 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Shizo Kanakuri is the 68th most popular athlete (down from 37th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from Japan (down from 400th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Athlete.

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  • 56.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 68 out of 6,025. Before him are Irina Press, Ralph Boston, Al Oerter, Pietro Mennea, Yelena Isinbayeva, and Vera Krepkina. After him are Irena Szewińska, Jürgen Schult, Irving Baxter, Dana Zátopková, Mohammed Gammoudi, and Merlene Ottey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 73. Before him are Henry Morgenthau Jr., Bruno Loerzer, Jose P. Laurel, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin, and Werner Lorenz. After him are Henry Tandey, Diana Budisavljević, Evgeny Pashukanis, Yrjö Väisälä, Tin Ujević, and Walter Eucken. Among people deceased in 1983, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 65. Before him are Arno Babajanian, Jean Rey, Tino Rossi, Piero Sraffa, Sharof Rashidov, and Erich Juskowiak. After him are László Budai, William Walton, Arturo Umberto Illia, Louison Bobet, Miguel Alemán Valdés, and Carolyn Jones.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 609 out of 6,245. Before him are Ukita Hideie (1573), Tsutomu Hata (1935), Shūmei Ōkawa (1886), Hajime Moriyasu (1968), Yukio Shimomura (1932), and Shigeko Higashikuni (1925). After him are Isao Tomita (1932), Misao Tamai (1903), Saburo Shinosaki (null), Takaaki Kajita (1959), Hōjō Sōun (1432), and Daigoro Kondo (1907).

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Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 1. After him are Naoto Tajima (1912), Kinue Hitomi (1907), Mikio Oda (1905), Isao Okano (1944), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Noboru Terada (1917), Masao Harada (1912), Masaru Furukawa (1936), and Tetsuo Hamuro (1917).

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