SKATER

Wim van der Voort

1923 - 2016

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Willem "Wim" van der Voort (24 March 1923 – 23 October 2016) was a Dutch speed skater. At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Van der Voort was the silver medalist in the men's 1500 meters, finishing 0.2 seconds behind Hjalmar Andersen of Norway. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wim van der Voort has received more than 12,680 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Wim van der Voort is the 100th most popular skater (down from 74th in 2019), the 884th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 734th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Dutch Skater.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SKATERS

Among skaters, Wim van der Voort ranks 100 out of 483. Before him are Wolfgang Schwarz, Barbara Ann Scott, Alexia Bryn, Klara Guseva, Midori Ito, and David Jenkins. After him are Cecilia Colledge, Aleksandr Gorshkov, Sten Stensen, Kees Verkerk, Marianna Nagy, and Carol Heiss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Wim van der Voort ranks 394. Before him are Adolphe Hug, Fernando Campos, Jorge Daponte, John Holt, Cyril M. Kornbluth, and Walter Jens. After him are Lee Yuan-tsu, James E. Gunn, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Helen Murray Free, Paavo Lonkila, and Ruth Williams Khama. Among people deceased in 2016, Wim van der Voort ranks 437. Before him are Kunio Hatoyama, Roger Dumas, Dušanka Sifnios, Rita Barberá, Larry Drake, and Gisela May. After him are Piers Sellers, Bobby Hutcherson, Guillaume Bieganski, Denton Cooley, Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, and Francisco Flores Pérez.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Wim van der Voort ranks 884 out of 1,646. Before him are Milly Scott (1933), Bobbi Eden (1980), Han Berger (1950), Rob Witschge (1966), Sofyan Amrabat (1996), and Gerard Joling (1960). After him are Pieter Huistra (1967), Kees Mijnders (1912), Wilhelmina Drucker (1847), André Kuipers (1958), Hardwell (1988), and Nathan Aké (1995).

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Among SKATERS In Netherlands

Among skaters born in Netherlands, Wim van der Voort ranks 4. Before him are Sjoukje Dijkstra (1942), Ard Schenk (1944), and Stien Kaiser (1938). After him are Kees Verkerk (1942), Kees Broekman (1927), Petra Burka (1946), Ans Schut (1944), Annie Borckink (1951), Carry Geijssen (1947), Ireen Wüst (1986), and Sven Kramer (1986).

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