New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ATHLETE

Wolfgang Schmidt

1954 - Today

Photo of Wolfgang Schmidt

Icon of person Wolfgang Schmidt

Wolfgang Schmidt (born 16 January 1954) is a German former track and field athlete who competed for East Germany at the 1976 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal in the discus throw. A former world record holder, he also won several medals at the European Athletics Championships. Schmidt made headlines in 1982 due to his failed attempt to escape from East Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Schmidt has received more than 62,848 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Wolfgang Schmidt is the 1,245th most popular athlete (down from 794th in 2019), the 4,740th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,141st in 2019) and the 96th most popular German Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

  • 63k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Wolfgang Schmidts by language


Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Wolfgang Schmidt ranks 1,245 out of 3,059Before him are Hans-Georg Reimann, Magdalena Neuner, Marianne Werner, John Taylor, Carl Osburn, and Vittorio Tamagnini. After him are Ernesto Formenti, Daniel Frank, Wiesław Maniak, Clarence Pinkston, Ercole Olgeni, and Tsuyoshi Yamanaka.

Most Popular Athletes in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Wolfgang Schmidt ranks 453Before him are Louisa Hanoune, Adam Ant, Yuji Horii, Barry Shabaka Henley, Anatoly Chukanov, and Dominique Bathenay. After him are Rüdiger Schnuphase, Patricia Belcher, Bruce Abbott, Toshiaki Imai, Carita Holmström, and João Carlos de Oliveira.

Others Born in 1954

Go to all Rankings

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Schmidt ranks 4,740 out of 6,142Before him are Magdalena Neuner (1987), Julian Brandt (1996), Sylvia Hanika (1959), Marianne Werner (1924), Wolfgang Seguin (1945), and Theo Helfrich (1913). After him are Ossi Reichert (1925), Rüdiger Schnuphase (1954), Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (1966), Michael Glos (1944), Hanna Neumann (1914), and Ulla Schmidt (1949).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Wolfgang Schmidt ranks 96Before him are Rainer Schmidt (1948), Klaus Siebert (1955), Therese Zenz (1932), Arthur Schnabel (1947), Magdalena Neuner (1987), and Marianne Werner (1924). After him are Paul Günther (1882), Ellen Streidt (1952), Heike Henkel (1964), Maria Sander (1924), Dietmar Mögenburg (1961), and Martina Hellmann (1960).