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Stanisława Walasiewicz

1911 - 1980

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Stanisława Walasiewicz (3 April 1911 – 4 December 1980), also known as Stefania Walasiewicz, and Stella Walsh, was a Polish-American track and field athlete, who became a women's Olympic champion in the 100 metres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanisława Walasiewicz has received more than 548,180 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Stanisława Walasiewicz is the 25th most popular athlete (down from 20th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 256th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Athlete.

Stanisława Walasiewicz is most famous for being the first woman to win the marathon at the Olympics in 1928.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Stanisława Walasiewicz ranks 25 out of 6,025. Before her are Ellery Harding Clark, Iolanda Balaș, Hannes Kolehmainen, Tamara Press, Marita Koch, and Luz Long. After her are Frank Zane, Sigfrid Edström, Ben Johnson, Marina Doria, Jānis Lūsis, and Ville Ritola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Stanisława Walasiewicz ranks 65. Before her are Qian Xuesen, Bernard Herrmann, Lee Yoo-hyung, Akira Yoshizawa, Nicholas Ray, and Dieter Wisliceny. After her are Lina Heydrich, Karl Silberbauer, Alfonso García Robles, Feodor Lynen, Lee J. Cobb, and Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza. Among people deceased in 1980, Stanisława Walasiewicz ranks 59. Before her are Mohammad Hatta, Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse, Patrick Depailler, Walter Dornberger, Mario Bava, and Kazimierz Kuratowski. After her are Tôn Đức Thắng, Ian Curtis, Heinz Linge, Ludwig Guttmann, Filipp Golikov, and Nadezhda Mandelstam.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stanisława Walasiewicz ranks 283 out of 1,694. Before her are Leszek the White (1186), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687), Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Lilli Palmer (1914), and Dieter Wisliceny (1911). After her are Henry the Bearded (1163), Moïse Kisling (1891), Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845), Siemomysł (922), Stanislav Kosior (1889), and Adam Czerniaków (1880).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Stanisława Walasiewicz ranks 1. After her are Hans Woellke (1911), Gustav Flatow (1875), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Myer Prinstein (1878), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Ursula Happe (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), and Józef Szmidt (1935).

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