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Wilhelm Leichum

1911 - 1941

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Wilhelm Leichum (12 May 1911, Neu-Isenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 19 July 1941, Gorky) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the long jump and 100 metres. Leichum was born in Hesse. He competed for Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany in the 4 x 100 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Erich Borchmeyer, Erwin Gillmeister and Gerd Hornberger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Leichum has received more than 20,456 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Wilhelm Leichum is the 1,007th most popular athlete (down from 899th in 2019), the 4,997th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,507th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Wilhelm Leichum ranks 1,007 out of 6,025. Before him are Mac Wilkins, Murray Halberg, Yevgeniya Sechenova, Henri Hazebrouck, André Auffray, and Ulf Sterner. After him are Ville Pörhölä, Jan Jindra, Dorothea Wierer, Yrjö Hietanen, Judy Amoore, and David Rigert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Wilhelm Leichum ranks 305. Before him are Bruno Heim, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Adam Kozłowiecki, Jeanette Nolan, Georg Dascher, and Bruno Venturini. After him are Gilles Grangier, Garrett Birkhoff, Paul Zielinski, Arvid Thörn, Bruno Ahlberg, and Paul Grégoire. Among people deceased in 1941, Wilhelm Leichum ranks 178. Before him are Dobri Hristov, Cecilio Báez, František Křižík, Simon Guggenheim, Victorino Márquez Bustillos, and Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith. After him are Aleksander Prystor, Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason, Marcus Hurley, Jakob Emanuel Lange, Friedrich Engel, and Yelizaveta Chaikina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Leichum ranks 4,997 out of 7,253. Before him are Volker Weidler (1962), Barbara Hendricks (1952), Joseph Weydemeyer (1818), Gabriele Kuby (1944), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), and Curt Goetz (1888). After him are Hans Schlegel (1951), Friedel Rausch (1940), Bernd Franke (1948), Brigitte Reimann (1933), Lothar Späth (1937), and Hermann Volk (1903).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Wilhelm Leichum ranks 79. Before him are Martin Lauer (1937), Gustav Schäfer (1906), Johanna Klier (1952), Helga Seidler (1949), Dieter Krause (1936), and Christina Lathan (1958). After him are Ellen Streidt (1952), Frank Forberger (1943), Klaus Wolfermann (1946), Hanns Braun (1886), Gerd Hornberger (1910), and Käthe Krauss (1906).

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