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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 560,302 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Shizo Kanakuri is the 37th most popular athlete (up from 46th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 476th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 560k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 37 out of 3,059. Before him are Larry Scott, Dorando Pietri, Al Oerter, Frank Zane, Ben Johnson, and Sohn Kee-chung. After him are Vasily Alekseyev, Coroebus of Elis, Ivan Patzaichin, Tommie Smith, Mark Phillips, and Jānis Lūsis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 53. Before him are Otto Schmidt, Jacques Lipchitz, Takijirō Ōnishi, Yevhen Konovalets, John Heartfield, and John Langenus. After him are Oswald Boelcke, Hu Shih, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Poul Nielsen, Lajos Zilahy, and Walter A. Shewhart. Among people deceased in 1983, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 49. Before him are Pridi Banomyong, Nicolaus von Below, Joan Robinson, Horst Schumann, Germaine Tailleferre, and Victor Turner. After him are Walther Nehring, William Walton, Norma Shearer, Igor Markevitch, Ralph Richardson, and Florence Owens Thompson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shizo Kanakuri ranks 402 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Go-Saga (1220), Emperor Heizei (773), Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu (1902), Osamu Yamaji (1929), Tokugawa Iesada (1824), and Emperor Konoe (1139). After him are Emperor Chūkyō (1218), Emperor Go-Fukakusa (1243), Kinjiro Shimizu (null), Shumpei Inoue (null), Koichi Sugiyama (1931), and Masuzo Madono (null).

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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), Sueo Ōe (1914), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Mikio Oda (1905), Chūhei Nambu (1904), Isao Okano (1944), Akio Kaminaga (1936), Naohiro Ikeda (1940), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), and Kim Eui-tae (1941).

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