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Wyndham Halswelle

1882 - 1915

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Wyndham Halswelle (30 May 1882 – 31 March 1915) was a British athlete. He won the controversial 400m race at the 1908 Summer Olympics, becoming the only athlete to win an Olympic title by a walkover. Halswelle was also an infantry officer who served in the Second Boer War and World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wyndham Halswelle has received more than 87,185 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Wyndham Halswelle is the 317th most popular athlete (up from 554th in 2019), the 3,022nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,692nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 317 out of 3,059Before her are Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Charles Blondin, Mikio Oda, Robert Lindsay, Vyacheslav Ivanov, and Eduardo Guerrero. After her are Ursula Happe, Robert Kerr, Władysław Komar, Marcus Hurley, Ann-Britt Leyman, and Betty Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 178Before her are Pierre Mac Orlan, Rockwell Kent, Osip Piatnitsky, Alfred Keller, Elin Wägner, and Benjamin Jones. After her are Robert Kerr, Amelita Galli-Curci, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, Henry J. Kaiser, Walter Jakobsson, and Jenő Fuchs. Among people deceased in 1915, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 81Before her are Tevfik Fikret, Karl Staaff, Pascual Orozco, Pyotr Durnovo, Otto von Emmich, and Siamanto. After her are Stanisław Witkiewicz, Hugo Schiff, Ferdinand Sarrien, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Bagha Jatin, and Christian Wilhelm Allers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 3,022 out of 7,765Before her are Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593), Michael Tippett (1905), Robert Lindsay (1890), William Withering (1741), Denny Laine (1944), and Benjamin Jones (1882). After her are Ron Atkinson (1939), Katherine Waterston (1980), Richard of Chichester (1197), Hugh Latimer (1485), Rosemary Sutcliff (1920), and Tim Pigott-Smith (1946).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 15Before her are Alfred Tysoe (1874), Ken McArthur (1881), Jonathan Edwards (1966), Arthur Russell (1886), George S. Robertson (1872), and Robert Lindsay (1890). After her are Robert Kerr (1882), Edwin Flack (1873), Tommy Hampson (1907), Albert Hill (1889), Bill Roberts (1912), and Don Thompson (1933).