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Tetsuo Hamuro

1917 - 2005

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Tetsuo Hamuro (葉室 鐵夫, Hamuro Tetsuo, 7 September 1917 – 30 October 2005) was a Japanese breaststroke swimmer. In 1935 he set a world record in the 200 m. Next year he won the gold medal in this event at the 1936 Olympics, setting a new Olympic record at 2:41.5. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tetsuo Hamuro has received more than 16,170 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tetsuo Hamuro is the 1,126th most popular athlete (down from 708th in 2019), the 1,405th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,229th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Athlete.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tetsuo Hamuro ranks 1,126 out of 3,059Before him are Commodore Cochran, Grete Ingeborg Nykkelmo, Robert Benson, Dorothy Brookshaw, Achille Souchard, and Gelindo Bordin. After him are Ilona Gusenbauer, Shaun White, Stan Rowley, Edith McGuire, Olga Bondarenko, and Boris Stenin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Tetsuo Hamuro ranks 279Before him are Sidney Nolan, Brenda Joyce, Steve Cochran, Jovdat Hajiyev, Charles Sibley, and Ramanand Sagar. After him are David Hampshire, Merle Travis, Mikhail Anikushin, Ottorino Volonterio, Lou Harrison, and Oswald Karch. Among people deceased in 2005, Tetsuo Hamuro ranks 287Before him are Arnold Denker, Hubert Curien, Wendie Jo Sperber, Robert Creeley, Gaylord Nelson, and Ramanand Sagar. After him are Sheree North, Percy Heath, Lee Eun-ju, Jesús Iglesias, Kalevi Hämäläinen, and Keith Andes.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsuo Hamuro ranks 1,405 out of 6,048Before him are Lynn Okamoto (1970), Takehiro Tomiyasu (1998), Hisashi Kimura (1870), Takeru Satoh (1989), Hiroyuki Usui (1953), and Hiromi Hara (1958). After him are Hiro Matsushita (1961), Keiko Matsui (1961), Momoko Sakura (1965), Koichi Wakata (1963), Takao Doi (1954), and Atsuhiro Miura (1974).

Among ATHLETES In Japan

Among athletes born in Japan, Tetsuo Hamuro ranks 15Before him are Akio Kaminaga (1936), Naohiro Ikeda (1940), Hiroshi Suzuki (1933), Kim Eui-tae (1941), Noboru Terada (1917), and Yoshinobu Miyake (1939). After him are Haruki Uemura (1951), Tsuyoshi Yamanaka (1939), Takao Sakurai (1941), Akitsugu Konno (1944), Yoshihisa Yoshikawa (1936), and Koji Murofushi (1974).