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Sten Stensen

1947 - Today

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Sten Einar Stensen (born 18 December 1947) is a former speed skater. Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Kay Stenshjemmet, and Jan Egil Storholt, he was one of the legendary four S-es ("four aces" in Norwegian), contemporary Norwegian top skaters in the 1970s and early 1980s. Stensen excelled at the longer distances, especially the 5,000 m and 10,000 m, and set two world records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sten Stensen has received more than 20,093 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Sten Stensen is the 103rd most popular skater (down from 87th in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Norway (down from 352nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Norwegian Skater.

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  • 20k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Sten Stensen ranks 103 out of 483. Before him are Klara Guseva, Midori Ito, David Jenkins, Wim van der Voort, Cecilia Colledge, and Aleksandr Gorshkov. After him are Kees Verkerk, Marianna Nagy, Carol Heiss, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, and Eteri Tutberidze.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Sten Stensen ranks 642. Before him are Siegmar Wätzlich, Chris Thomas, Roky Erickson, Mercedes Sampietro, Wayne Allwine, and Rustam Kazakov. After him are Ernie Lively, Gardner Dozois, John Powell, Leena Krohn, Mustapha Choukri, and Ian Millar.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Sten Stensen ranks 421 out of 1,039. Before him are Anders Lange (1904), Narve Bonna (1901), Liv Grete Skjelbreid (1974), Arne Halse (1887), Anne-Karine Strøm (1951), and Sigurd Ibsen (1859). After him are Anette Bøe (1957), Carl Gustav Fleischer (1883), Grethe Kausland (1947), Halvard Hanevold (1969), Frithjof Ulleberg (1911), and Michael Sars (1805).

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Among SKATERS In Norway

Among skaters born in Norway, Sten Stensen ranks 13. Before him are Bernt Evensen (1905), Knut Johannesen (1933), Finn Helgesen (1919), Odd Lundberg (1917), Johann Olav Koss (1968), and Alexia Bryn (1889). After him are Sigurd Moen (1897), Sverre Farstad (1920), Roar Grønvold (1946), Lisbeth Korsmo (1948), Bjørg Eva Jensen (1960), and Alv Gjestvang (1937).

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