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Wolfgang Hofmann

1941 - 2020

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Wolfgang Hofmann (30 March 1941 – 12 March 2020) was a West German judoka who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where he won the silver medal in the middleweight class representing the United Team of Germany. Hofmann was German champion 15 times and European champion twice (1965 and 1968. He was the holder of the 8th Dan, as well as being a lecturer for judo at the German Sport University in Cologne for many years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Hofmann has received more than 16,848 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Hofmann is the 176th most popular wrestler (down from 128th in 2019), the 5,129th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,327th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Wrestler.

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  • 17k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Wolfgang Hofmann ranks 176 out of 1,027. Before him are Paul Bearer, Stephanie McMahon, Hermanni Pihlajamäki, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, John Layfield, and Daniel Robin. After him are Ismail Abilov, Knut Fridell, Kazushi Sakuraba, Curt Hennig, Sergei Beloglazov, and Rustam Kazakov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Wolfgang Hofmann ranks 510. Before him are Irina Petrescu, Helga Niessen Masthoff, Aníbal Tarabini, Heidi Biebl, José Carlos, and Earl Young. After him are Sadhana Shivdasani, Jackie DeShannon, Christopher Jones, Wilfrid Napier, Teodor Meleșcanu, and Bobby Hutcherson. Among people deceased in 2020, Wolfgang Hofmann ranks 558. Before him are Sapardi Djoko Damono, Alison Lurie, Stephen F. Cohen, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, and Amadou Gon Coulibaly. After him are Anthony Soter Fernandez, Toke Talagi, Li Wenliang, Veli Lehtelä, James E. Gunn, and Giovanni Battista Rabino.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Hofmann ranks 5,129 out of 7,253. Before him are Paul Weinstein (1878), Walter Jens (1923), Heidi Biebl (1941), Julius Körner (1870), Werner Klingler (1903), and Heidi Kabel (1914). After him are Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897), Don Zagier (1951), Walter Gordon (1893), Gustav-Adolf Schur (1931), Erich Hamann (1944), and Malu Dreyer (1961).

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Among WRESTLERS In Germany

Among wrestlers born in Germany, Wolfgang Hofmann ranks 3. Before him are Wilfried Dietrich (1933), and Klaus Glahn (1942). After him are Georg Gehring (1903), Udo Quellmalz (1967), Frank Wieneke (1962), Maik Bullmann (1967), Ole Bischof (1979), Frank Stäbler (1989), Yvonne Bönisch (1980), Aline Rotter-Focken (1991), and Kerstin Thiele (1986).

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