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Yang Chuan-kwang

1933 - 2007

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Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang (Amis: Maysang Kalimud, Chinese: 楊傳廣; pinyin: Yáng Chuánguǎng; July 10, 1933 – January 27, 2007), was an Olympic decathlete from Taiwan. Yang attended college at UCLA, where he trained and competed with teammate and Olympian Rafer Johnson and was coached by Elvin C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yang Chuan-kwang has received more than 103,251 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Yang Chuan-kwang is the 431st most popular athlete (down from 219th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Taiwan (down from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Athlete.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 49.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 431 out of 6,025. Before him are Veikko Kankkonen, Klaus Dibiasi, Robert Alt, Irina Privalova, Nina Ponomaryova, and Grete Waitz. After him are Lyudmila Bragina, Victor Willems, Patrik Sjöberg, Gergely Kulcsár, Sotirios Versis, and Rafael Chimishkyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 317. Before him are Helmut Senekowitsch, Ayako Wakao, Otar Chiladze, Arif Malikov, Abdul Rahman Munif, and Lucian Pintilie. After him are Lou Rawls, Yoshishige Yoshida, Ingrid Jonker, Sergio Pitol, Chuck Grassley, and Arnold Koller. Among people deceased in 2007, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 236. Before him are Klausjürgen Wussow, Milan Jelić, Francisco Umbral, Aloísio Lorscheider, Frane Matošić, and Bert Bolin. After him are Raymond Kaelbel, Maurice Boitel, Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Ove Grahn, and Gyula Zsivótzky.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 29 out of 116. Before him are Cheng Yen (1937), Frank Hsieh (1946), Elaine Chao (1953), Jay Chou (1979), You Si-kun (1948), and Wu Den-yih (1948). After him are Sylvia Chang (1953), Lin Chi-ling (1974), Eric Chu (1961), Han Kuo-yu (1957), Jolin Tsai (1980), and David Ho (1952).

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Among ATHLETES In Taiwan

Among athletes born in Taiwan, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 1. After him are Chi Cheng (1944), Kuo Hsing-chun (1993), Chen Shih-hsin (1978), Chu Mu-yen (1982), Chen Wei-ling (1982), Lee Yang (1995), Sung Yu-chi (1982), Yang Yung-wei (1997), Hsu Shu-ching (1991), Lei Chien-ying (1990), and Tan Ya-ting (1993).

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