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Waldemar Cierpinski

1950 - Today

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Waldemar Cierpinski (born 3 August 1950) is a former East German athlete and two-time Olympic champion in the marathon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Waldemar Cierpinski has received more than 122,477 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Waldemar Cierpinski is the 133rd most popular athlete (up from 145th in 2019), the 2,829th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,050th in 2019) and the 10th most popular German Athlete.

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  • 53.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Waldemar Cierpinski ranks 133 out of 6,025Before him are Stamata Revithi, Vladimír Dzurilla, Thomas Hicks, Gaston Reiff, Hubert Van Innis, and Anatoliy Bondarchuk. After him are Lina Radke, Alfred Neuland, Kipchoge Keino, Paula Mollenhauer, Mamo Wolde, and Francisco Lázaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Waldemar Cierpinski ranks 167Before him are Haris Alexiou, Richard Bandler, Jim Beaver, Krzysztof Wielicki, Yumi Umeoka, and Roger Hodgson. After him are Otto Pérez Molina, Bertrand Delanoë, Bruce McGill, Álvaro Noboa, Charles, Prince Napoléon, and Richard Galliano.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Waldemar Cierpinski ranks 2,829 out of 7,253Before him are Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Franz Lachner (1803), Otto Deßloch (1889), Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1832), and Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1622). After him are Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1633), Sophie, Princess of Albania (1885), Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863), Aloysia Weber (1760), Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886), and Ida Straus (1849).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Waldemar Cierpinski ranks 10Before him are Jürgen Schult (1960), Fritz Hofmann (1871), Armin Hary (1937), Dora Ratjen (1918), Friedrich Traun (1876), and Tilly Fleischer (1911). After him are Lina Radke (1903), Paula Mollenhauer (1908), Bernhard Lehmann (1948), Angela Voigt (1951), Gretel Bergmann (1914), and Rosemarie Ackermann (1952).