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Toller Cranston

1949 - 2015

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Toller Shalitoe Montague Cranston (April 20, 1949 – January 24, 2015) was a Canadian figure skater and painter. He won the 1971–1976 Canadian national championships, the 1974 World bronze medal and the 1976 Olympic bronze medal. Despite never winning at the World Figure Skating Championships due to his poor compulsory figures, he won the small medal for free skating at the 1972 and 1974 championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Toller Cranston has received more than 276,534 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Toller Cranston is the 114th most popular skater (down from 101st in 2019), the 497th most popular biography from Canada (up from 551st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Skater.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Toller Cranston ranks 114 out of 315. Before him are Jonny Nilsson, Irina Slutskaya, Tenley Albright, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Peggy Fleming, and Anett Pötzsch. After him are Janet Lynn, Oksana Baiul, Sigvard Ericsson, Sissy Schwarz, Marina Klimova, and Carol Heiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Toller Cranston ranks 514. Before him are Heini Hemmi, Flora Brovina, Artis Gilmore, Soumaïla Cissé, Blase J. Cupich, and Dan Ar Braz. After him are Claude Papi, Aleksandar Tomov, Kęstutis Šapka, Alberto Cardaccio, Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Spencer Haywood. Among people deceased in 2015, Toller Cranston ranks 364. Before him are Martin Litchfield West, Loris Campana, Michael Blake, Robert Spitzer, Peder Pedersen, and Francis George. After him are Joan Leslie, Alberto Cardaccio, Eevi Huttunen, Bruno Pesaola, Andy Fraser, and Maria Golubnichaya.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Toller Cranston ranks 497 out of 1,350. Before him are Devin Townsend (1972), Charles Tupper (1821), Justin Chatwin (1982), Taylor Kitsch (1981), Carly Rae Jepsen (1985), and Jane Bell (1910). After him are Gérald Lacroix (1957), Jeanne Sauvé (1922), Donald Arnold (1935), Paul Grégoire (1911), Alessia Cara (1996), and Nicholas Lea (1962).

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Among SKATERS In Canada

Among skaters born in Canada, Toller Cranston ranks 3. Before him are Brian Orser (1961) and Barbara Ann Scott (1928). After him are Barbara Wagner (1938), Montgomery Wilson (1909), Robert Paul (1937), Suzanne Morrow Francis (1930), Donald Jackson (1940), Karen Magnussen (1952), Tessa Virtue (1989), Patrick Chan (1990), and Jeremy Wotherspoon (1976).

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