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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 93,719 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Wyndham Halswelle is the 603rd most popular athlete (down from 317th in 2019), the 3,510th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,014th in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 603 out of 6,025. Before her are George Baird, Kurt Behrens, Jaan Kikkas, Axel Norling, Alan Helffrich, and Arthur Barnard. After her are Eric Backman, Olivér Halassy, Heikki Liimatainen, Edward Lindberg, Aleksandr Baryshnikov, and István Somodi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 208. Before her are Aristarkh Lentulov, Mustafa Subhi, Leonard Meredith, José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Leonard Nelson, and Ștefania Mărăcineanu. After her are Juan Luque de Serrallonga, Sven Forssman, Purushottam Das Tandon, Ernestas Galvanauskas, Emil Filla, and Richard Johansson. Among people deceased in 1915, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 96. Before her are Pyotr Durnovo, Ferdinand Sarrien, Anthony Wilding, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, and Carl Locher. After her are Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Désiré Charnay, Karol Olszewski, Guillermo Billinghurst, Bagha Jatin, and Hans von Berlepsch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 3,510 out of 8,785. Before her are Blanche Bingley (1863), George Cohen (1939), Dave Holland (1946), Liz Smith (1921), Dougray Scott (1965), and Angus Macfadyen (1963). After her are Richard Leach Maddox (1816), Mick Jones (1944), Natalia Tena (1984), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Osbert Salvin (1835), and Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Wyndham Halswelle ranks 25. Before her are Albert Hill (1889), Arthur Russell (1886), Eddie Owen (1886), Henry Macintosh (1892), Tommy Hampson (1907), and Don Thompson (1933). After her are Bill Roberts (1912), Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Robert Lindsay (1890), Steve Redgrave (1962), Victor d'Arcy (1887), and Godfrey Rampling (1909).

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