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Torsten Voss

1963 - Today

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Torsten Voss (sometimes listed as Thorsten Voss; German pronunciation: [ˈtɔʁstn̩ ˈfɔs] ; born 24 March 1963 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a former East German track and field athlete and bobsledder who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. His biggest success was when he won the world title in the decathlon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome as a representative for East Germany. He achieved a personal best score of 8680 points and was chosen as the East German sportsman of the year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torsten Voss has received more than 39,850 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Torsten Voss is the 3,130th most popular athlete (down from 2,030th in 2019), the 6,217th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,292nd in 2019) and the 314th most popular German Athlete.

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  • 40k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Torsten Voss ranks 3,130 out of 6,025. Before him are Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Inger Miller, Roberto Hernández, Blair Horn, Israil Arsamakov, and Wayne Collett. After him are Robbie Brightwell, Sha'Carri Richardson, Günther Huber, Vitaliy Savin, Jens Müller, and Christina Obergföll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Torsten Voss ranks 820. Before him are Marco Marin, Gerhard Haidacher, Roberto Galia, Mark Wright, Mark Oliver Everett, and Okwui Enwezor. After him are Brian Robbins, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Brain, Dale Hawerchuk, Dmitri Galiamin, and Tanyu Kiryakov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Torsten Voss ranks 6,217 out of 7,253. Before him are Birgit Peter (1964), Ogün Temizkanoğlu (1969), Heike Warnicke (1966), Kerstin Behrendt (1967), Daniel Siebert (1984), and Marvin Plattenhardt (1992). After him are Timo Horn (1993), Uwe Gensheimer (1986), Jens Müller (1965), Christina Obergföll (1981), Natalia Zhukova (1979), and Carl-Uwe Steeb (1967).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Torsten Voss ranks 314. Before him are Franka Dietzsch (1968), Steffi Nerius (1972), Michael Jung (1982), Ulrich Kirchhoff (1967), Birgit Peter (1964), and Kerstin Behrendt (1967). After him are Jens Müller (1965), Christina Obergföll (1981), Petra Behle (1969), Dorothee Schneider (1969), Christoph Langen (1962), and Katrin Apel (1973).

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