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Shohachi Ishii

1926 - 1980

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Shohachi Ishii (石井 庄八, Ishii Shōhachi, September 20, 1926 – January 4, 1980) was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the first Japanese gold medalist after World War II, the only Japanese gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics, and one of two Japanese medalists in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics, the other being flyweight Yushu Kitano, who won silver in freestyle. Ishii took up wrestling because there was no judo club around. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shohachi Ishii has received more than 15,551 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Shohachi Ishii is the 241st most popular wrestler, the 1,626th most popular biography from Japan and the 17th most popular Japanese Wrestler.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Shohachi Ishii ranks 241 out of 1,027. Before him are Don Muraco, Davey Boy Smith, Hidehiko Yoshida, Diamond Dallas Page, Rick Rude, and Lars-Erik Skiöld. After him are Bray Wyatt, Vickie Guerrero, Imre Hódos, Scott Steiner, Boris Gurevich, and Ștefan Rusu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Shohachi Ishii ranks 480. Before him are Erna Schneider Hoover, Hong Deok-young, Tony Settember, Don Gordon, Éva Janikovszky, and Rob Schroeder. After him are Audrey Williamson, Patrice Wymore, Manorama, Robert Creeley, Valentin Kuzin, and Larissa Volpert. Among people deceased in 1980, Shohachi Ishii ranks 278. Before him are Nelson López, Zakaria Chihab, John Kotelawala, Nikolay Bogolyubov, John McEwen, and William Gemmell Cochran. After him are Gumercindo Gómez, Rachel Fuller Brown, Pietro Genovesi, Tryggve Gran, Marion Zinderstein, and Barbara Pym.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shohachi Ishii ranks 1,626 out of 6,245. Before him are Kei Okami (1859), Moyoco Anno (1971), Takashi Ishimoto (1935), Shun Oguri (1982), Haruma Miura (1990), and Reki Kawahara (1974). After him are Satoru Mochizuki (1964), Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi (1958), Masaaki Mori (1961), Yukari Tamura (1978), Momo Hirai (1996), and Noriko Sakai (1971).

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Among WRESTLERS In Japan

Among wrestlers born in Japan, Shohachi Ishii ranks 17. Before him are Asuka (1981), Atsuji Miyahara (1958), Yuji Takada (1954), Mitsuo Ikeda (1935), Jiichiro Date (1952), and Hidehiko Yoshida (1969). After him are Jushin Liger (1964), Tadahiro Nomura (1974), Katsutoshi Naito (1895), Hitoshi Saito (1961), Shinsuke Nakamura (1980), and Takanohana Kōji (1972).

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