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Viggo Jensen

1874 - 1930

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Alexander Viggo Jensen (born 22 June 1874 in Copenhagen, Denmark; died 2 November 1930 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish weightlifter, sport shooter, gymnast, and athlete. He was the first Danish and Nordic Olympic champion, at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. The first weightlifting event held was the two-handed lift, in a style now known as the clean and jerk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Viggo Jensen has received more than 49,882 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Viggo Jensen is the 160th most popular athlete (down from 156th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 315th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Danish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Viggo Jensen ranks 160 out of 6,025. Before him are Naim Süleymanoğlu, John Carlos, Silvio Cator, Carlos Lopes, Gretel Bergmann, and Galina Zybina. After him are Klas Lestander, Gioacchino Guaragna, Johan Grøttumsbråten, Albin Stenroos, Robert Shavlakadze, and Ralph Craig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Viggo Jensen ranks 109. Before him are Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Oskar Nedbal, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Georges Lefebvre, Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, and Ricardo Flores Magón. After him are Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Bahaeddin Şakir, Krste Misirkov, Charles-Louis Philippe, Mikhail Diterikhs, and Fernand Bouisson. Among people deceased in 1930, Viggo Jensen ranks 63. Before him are Robert Hennet, Richard Wilhelm, Paul Levi, Oskar Nedbal, Abram Arkhipov, and Giuseppe Morello. After him are Maximilian Njegovan, Moritz Pasch, Evelyn Colyer, Emmy Destinn, Julio Romero de Torres, and Alexander Kutepov.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Viggo Jensen ranks 306 out of 1,032. Before him are Jørgen Ingmann (1925), Tony Rominger (1961), Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (1831), Kim Bodnia (1965), Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916), and Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1890). After him are Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872), Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1860), Jens Baggesen (1764), Kim Larsen (1945), Bjarne Riis (1964), and Jens Fink-Jensen (1956).

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Among ATHLETES In Denmark

Among athletes born in Denmark, Viggo Jensen ranks 2. Before him are Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922). After him are Edgar Aabye (1865), Karen Harup (1924), Lis Hartel (1921), Charles Winckler (1867), Ernst Schultz (1879), Eugen Schmidt (1862), Karen Hoff (1921), Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899), Henry Petersen (1900), and Kurt Helmudt (1943).

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