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Steve Redgrave

1962 - Today

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Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave (born 23 March 1962) is a British retired rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000. He has also won three Commonwealth Games gold medals and nine World Rowing Championships golds. He is the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five Olympic Games in an endurance sport.Redgrave is regarded as one of Britain's greatest-ever Olympians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve Redgrave has received more than 1,093,952 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Redgrave is the 735th most popular athlete (up from 1,488th in 2019), the 3,748th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,038th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Steve Redgraves by language

Over the past year Steve Redgrave has had the most page views in the with 96,305 views, followed by German (3,940), and French (3,800). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (327.97%), Egyptian Arabic (194.46%), and Greek (152.44%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Steve Redgrave ranks 735 out of 6,025Before him are Henri Tauzin, Roy Cochran, Ed Hamm, Ileana Silai, Johan Jarlén, and Frederick Schule. After him are Arthur Jonath, Lajos Steiner, Erik Larsson, Calvin Smith, John Geiger, and Ernst Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Steve Redgrave ranks 271Before him are Ulf Timmermann, David Zayas, Bernd Lucke, Anna Kanakis, Valérie Kaprisky, and Gautam Adani. After him are Pipilotti Rist, Grigory Leps, Hesham Qandil, Alison Arngrim, Vincent Spano, and Ivica Barbarić.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Steve Redgrave ranks 3,748 out of 8,785Before him are Joe Wright (1972), Ninian (360), Cynewulf (900), Tanith Lee (1947), Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (1726), and Harrison Birtwistle (1934). After him are Henry Edward Manning (1808), Robin Dunbar (1947), Max Beerbohm (1872), Alex Salmond (1954), John Neville Keynes (1852), and William Davenant (1606).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Steve Redgrave ranks 29Before him are Tommy Hampson (1907), Don Thompson (1933), Wyndham Halswelle (1882), Bill Roberts (1912), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), and Robert Lindsay (1890). After him are Victor d'Arcy (1887), Godfrey Rampling (1909), Cecil Griffiths (1900), Phyllis Johnson (1886), Tommy Green (1894), and Charles Bennett (1870).