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Tonya Harding

1970 - Today

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Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater and boxer, and reality television personality. Born in Portland, Oregon, Harding was raised by her mother, who enrolled her in ice skating lessons when Tonya was 3 years old. Harding spent much of her early life training, eventually dropping out of high school to devote her time to the sport. After climbing the ranks in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tonya Harding has received more than 27,244,706 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Tonya Harding is the 6th most popular skater, the 2,313th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,266th in 2019) and the most popular American Skater.

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  • 27M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Tonya Harding ranks 6 out of 483Before her are Sonja Henie, Adelina Sotnikova, Oleg Protopopov, Ulrich Salchow, and Axel Paulsen. After her are Clas Thunberg, Katarina Witt, Gillis Grafström, Ondrej Nepela, Ivar Ballangrud, and Ludmila Belousova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Tonya Harding ranks 35Before her are Alan Shearer, Marco Pantani, Erik ten Hag, Lee Byung-hun, Frank de Boer, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. After her are Andrej Plenković, John Frusciante, Roberto Di Matteo, Yigal Amir, Phillip Cocu, and Christian Karembeu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tonya Harding ranks 2,313 out of 20,380Before her are Nathan Rosen (1909), George Gallup (1901), Steve McCurry (1950), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Henry Silva (1928), and Robert Plutchik (1927). After her are Garrett Morgan (1877), Peter Graves (1926), Shannen Doherty (1971), Leland Stanford (1824), Emma Stone (1988), and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815).

Among SKATERS In United States

Among skaters born in United States, Tonya Harding ranks 1After her are Tony Hawk (1968), Eric Heiden (1958), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Charles Jewtraw (1900), Peggy Fleming (1948), Terry McDermott (1940), Tenley Albright (1935), David Jenkins (1936), Carol Heiss (1940), Ken Henry (1929), and Jeanne Ashworth (1938).