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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 12,559 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Willy Hansen is the 128th most popular cyclist (down from 104th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 373rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Willy Hansen ranks 128 out of 1,214Before him are Johny Schleck, Fernand Sanz, Jan Raas, Pedro Delgado, Franco Bitossi, and Giuseppe Olmo. After him are Michel Pollentier, Pino Cerami, André Darrigade, Johan Museeuw, Enzo Sacchi, and Peter Post.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Willy Hansen ranks 248Before him are Hermione Baddeley, Harri Larva, Jaroslav Burgr, Lon Chaney Jr., Alexander Moyzes, and Josef Čtyřoký. After him are Rolf Singer, Benedicto de Moraes Menezes, Bart Bok, V. J. Sukselainen, Wolfgang Koeppen, and Joseph Höffner. Among people deceased in 1978, Willy Hansen ranks 165Before him are Jorge Cafrune, O. E. Hasse, Ethelda Bleibtrey, Ali Soilih, Giuseppe Impastato, and Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi. After him are Greta Johansson, James B. Conant, John Lyng, George Moscone, Germain Derycke, and Will Geer.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Willy Hansen ranks 433 out of 893Before him are August Blom (1869), Lars Olsen (1961), Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ (1812), Johan Lange (1818), Vivi Bach (1939), and Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685). After him are Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), Karen Hoff (1921), Urban Gad (1879), Christian Poulsen (1980), Lauge Koch (1892), and Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs (1817).

Among CYCLISTS In Denmark

Among cyclists born in Denmark, Willy Hansen ranks 4Before him are Tony Rominger (1961), Bjarne Riis (1964), and Henry Hansen (1902). After him are Chris Anker Sørensen (1984), Mogens Frey (1941), Leif Mortensen (1946), Michael Rasmussen (1974), Charles Schlee (1873), Axel Schandorff (1925), Peder Pedersen (1945), and Gunnar Asmussen (1944).