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Victor Johnson

1883 - 1951

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Victor Louis Johnson, Vic Johnson, (10 May 1883 – 23 June 1951) was a British track cycling racer who, in 1908, won a gold medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics; became 'World Amateur Sprint Champion' and the 'British National Quarter-mile Champion'. In September 1909 he set three world records at Herne Hill Velodrome, London, for quarter-mile, three-quarter mile and one mile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Johnson has received more than 7,951 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Johnson is the 241st most popular cyclist (down from 190th in 2019), the 4,344th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,536th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Victor Johnson ranks 241 out of 1,214Before him are Jean Cugnot, Paolo Bettini, Axel Schandorff, Max Bulla, Bernhard Britz, and Cyrille Guimard. After him are Imerio Massignan, Erik Zabel, Leandro Faggin, Paul Chocque, Giovanni Pettenella, and Loris Campana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Victor Johnson ranks 228Before him are Emil Rausch, Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith, Mary Alden, Federigo Tozzi, Carl Gustav Fleischer, and Stanley Bruce. After him are Max Eastman, Hjalmar Cedercrona, Ole Lilloe-Olsen, Gösta Olson, Edna May Oliver, and Raymond Basset. Among people deceased in 1951, Victor Johnson ranks 147Before him are Axel Sjöblom, Nils Rosén, Choudhry Rahmat Ali, Joaquín Chapaprieta, Adolf Spinnler, and Urho Peltonen. After him are Harry Blackstaffe, Lloyd C. Douglas, Frank Weston Benson, Polydore Veirman, Mildred Bailey, and Ben Chifley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Victor Johnson ranks 4,344 out of 7,765Before him are Joseph Bazalgette (1819), Frank Swift (1913), Vincent Regan (1965), Gertrude Lawrence (1898), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), and Thomas Campbell (1777). After him are Piers Anthony (1934), Joe Mercer (1914), Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896), John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence (1811), Stephen Leacock (1869), and Aneurin Bevan (1897).

Among CYCLISTS In United Kingdom

Among cyclists born in United Kingdom, Victor Johnson ranks 8Before him are Benjamin Jones (1882), Leonard Meredith (1882), Georges Passerieu (1885), Frederick Keeping (1867), Lloyd Hildebrand (1870), and Charles Henry Bartlett (1885). After him are Clarence Kingsbury (1882), Gordon Thomas (1921), Ronald Stretton (1930), Phil Anderson (1958), Geraint Thomas (1986), and Graeme Obree (1965).