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Simon Dickie

1951 - 2017

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Simon Charles Dickie (31 March 1951 – 13 December 2017) was a New Zealand rowing cox who won three Olympic medals. Dickie was born in 1951 in Waverley in Taranaki, New Zealand. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School where he was part of the Maadi Cup winning crews between 1966 and 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Dickie has received more than 44,064 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Simon Dickie is the 2,406th most popular athlete (down from 2,396th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 156th in 2019) and the 14th most popular New Zealander Athlete.

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  • 6.21

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  • 2.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Simon Dickie ranks 2,406 out of 6,025. Before him are Volker Beck, Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, Thomas Mitchell, Nate Brooks, and Aleksandr Timoshinin. After him are Marshall Wayne, Mary Washburn, Magomed Ibragimov, Nikolai Sologubov, David Curtiss Munson, and Maureen Gardner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Simon Dickie ranks 642. Before him are Khattiya Sawasdipol, Bobby Jones, Nikolay Merkushkin, Antonio de la Torre, Jay Benedict, and Wolfgang Güldenpfennig. After him are Carlos Frenk, Nigel Havers, Jean-Pierre Bel, Irving Finkel, Rodger Bumpass, and Mike Bantom. Among people deceased in 2017, Simon Dickie ranks 598. Before him are Desmond Connell, Darrall Imhoff, Ian Stewart, Dudley Storey, Nelsan Ellis, and Sotsha Dlamini. After him are Bruce Forsyth, Lorne Loomer, Margit Schumann, Peggy Cummins, Uli Vos, and Jim Bunning.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Simon Dickie ranks 124 out of 303. Before him are Georgina Beyer (1957), Walter Buller (1838), Andrew Dominik (1967), John Walker (1952), Dudley Storey (1939), and Mike Thackwell (1961). After him are Archie Thompson (1978), Geoffrey Palmer (1942), Robert Muldoon (1921), Dean O'Gorman (1976), Warren Cole (1940), and Chris Rankin (1983).

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Among ATHLETES In New Zealand

Among athletes born in New Zealand, Simon Dickie ranks 14. Before him are John Hunter (1943), Kim Min-jung (null), Tony Hurt (1946), Trevor Coker (1949), John Walker (1952), and Dudley Storey (1939). After him are Warren Cole (1940), Harry Kerr (1879), Joe Earl (1952), Daniel López (null), Mark Todd (1956), and Neroli Fairhall (1944).

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