CYCLIST

Willy Hansen

1906 - 1978

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Willy Falck Hansen (4 April 1906 – 18 March 1978) was a Danish track cyclist who won a silver medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics with Edmund Hansen and gold and bronze medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willy Hansen has received more than 13,755 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Willy Hansen is the 169th most popular cyclist (down from 128th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 431st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Cyclist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Willy Hansen ranks 169 out of 1,613. Before him are Mario Ghella, Andrei Tchmil, Vasco Bergamaschi, Moreno Argentin, Jeannie Longo, and Frans Verbeeck. After him are Carlos Sastre, Mino De Rossi, Antonio Pesenti, Vicente Trueba, Angelo Conterno, and Jonas Vingegaard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Willy Hansen ranks 287. Before him are Jānis Ivanovs, Buddy Adler, Galo Plaza, Arthur Rudolph, Lon Chaney Jr., and Erich Kähler. After him are Willy Jäggi, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Arturo Torres Carrasco, Branislav Sekulić, Cai Chusheng, and Arseny Golovko. Among people deceased in 1978, Willy Hansen ranks 183. Before him are Ahmad al-Ghashmi, Sandy Denny, Edward Lindberg, John Lyng, Philip Ahn, and Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. After him are Carlos Torre Repetto, Ivan Kavaleridze, Mladen Ramljak, František Šterc, George Moscone, and Edgar Bergen.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Willy Hansen ranks 485 out of 1,032. Before him are Frans Blom (1893), Katja K (1968), Ulla Pia (1945), Hannibal Sehested (1842), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Niels Neergaard (1854). After him are Jens Galschiøt (1954), Icel of Mercia (501), Jonas Vingegaard (1996), Ada Adler (1878), Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1817), and Christen Andreas Fonnesbech (1817).

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Among CYCLISTS In Denmark

Among cyclists born in Denmark, Willy Hansen ranks 5. Before him are Tony Rominger (1961), Bjarne Riis (1964), Henry Hansen (1902), and Ole Ritter (1941). After him are Jonas Vingegaard (1996), Leif Mortensen (1946), Michael Rasmussen (1974), Mogens Frey (1941), Gunnar Asmussen (1944), Axel Schandorff (1925), and Peder Pedersen (1945).

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