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Takao Sakurai

1941 - 2012

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Takao Sakurai (桜井 孝雄, Sakurai Takao, September 25, 1941 – January 10, 2012) was a Japanese boxer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Takao Sakurai has received more than 20,993 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Takao Sakurai is the 1,506th most popular athlete (down from 1,276th in 2019), the 1,560th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,463rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Japanese Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Takao Sakurais by language

Over the past year Takao Sakurai has had the most page views in the with 4,836 views, followed by English (2,223), and Chinese (732). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (47.19%), Finnish (47.06%), and Chinese (44.38%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Takao Sakurai ranks 1,506 out of 6,025Before him are Jean-Guy Gautier, Ivo Stefanoni, Vilmos Varjú, Edward Stevens, Boris Nikolov, and Igor Tselovalnikov. After him are Vladimir Nevzorov, Józef Grudzień, Roger Kingdom, Erwin Casmir, József Kovács, and Georgia Coleman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Takao Sakurai ranks 545Before him are Marty Riessen, Mária Gulácsy, Luigi Ferrando, Miroslav Verner, Irma Thomas, and Nelson López. After him are Mário da Graça Machungo, Vyacheslav Vedenin, Faith Leech, Magne Thomassen, Shirley Stelfox, and Neal Adams. Among people deceased in 2012, Takao Sakurai ranks 408Before him are Mike Sparken, Jose Tomas Sanchez, Deborah Raffin, Norman Alden, Klaus Köste, and Geoffrey Hughes. After him are Nicholas Katzenbach, Ramaz Urushadze, Janice E. Voss, John Tchicai, Fidélis, and Charles Colson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Takao Sakurai ranks 1,560 out of 6,245Before him are Yūki Kaji (1985), Yoshiyuki Tsuruta (1903), Richard T. Jones (1972), Yoshio Kato (1957), Koto Matsudaira (1903), and Mitsuo Ikeda (1935). After him are Hiroshi Mikitani (1965), Takuma Asano (1994), Seiji Ueda (1952), Fumito Ueda (1970), Rumi Utsugi (1988), and Yoshioka Yayoi (1871).

Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Takao Sakurai ranks 23Before him are Shuhei Nishida (1910), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Shunpei Uto (1918), Kenjiro Shinozuka (1948), and Yoshihiro Akiyama (1975). After him are Masanori Yusa (1915), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Takashi Ishimoto (1935), Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939), Hisakichi Toyoda (1912), and Shunkichi Hamada (1910).