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Yaşar Erkan

1911 - 1986

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Yaşar Erkan (30 April 1911 – 18 May 1986) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yaşar Erkan has received more than 19,886 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yaşar Erkan is the 187th most popular wrestler (down from 138th in 2019), the 1,045th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,071st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Turkish Wrestler.

Memorability Metrics

  • 20k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Yaşar Erkan ranks 187 out of 1,027. Before him are Sergei Beloglazov, Rustam Kazakov, Georg Gehring, Mohamed Ali Rashwan, Mark Schultz, and Ivan Koloff. After him are Paul Heyman, Dietmar Lorenz, Lajos Keresztes, Frithiof Mårtensson, Aleksandar Tomov, and Dave Finlay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Yaşar Erkan ranks 323. Before him are René Bougnol, André Saeys, John Gorton, Sten Suvio, Betty Nuthall, and Robert Lamoot. After him are Chris Berger, Näcip Cihanov, Hans Pesser, Marie Osborne Yeats, Ruth Hussey, and Ellsworth Vines. Among people deceased in 1986, Yaşar Erkan ranks 253. Before him are Harry Benjamin, Sulo Bärlund, Forrest Tucker, Josef Streb, Rafael Gil, and Yakima Canutt. After him are Hans Pesser, Robert Alda, Erik Svensson, James Fifer, Alfonso Thiele, and Lya Lys.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Yaşar Erkan ranks 1,045 out of 1,347. Before him are Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914), Can Dündar (1961), Sabiha Bengütaş (1904), Mateja Matevski (1929), Hatice Aslan (1962), and Memnon of Heraclea (null). After him are Şehrazat (1952), Çetin Zeybek (1932), Candan Erçetin (1963), Leyla Erbil (1931), Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914), and Aurora Mardiganian (1901).

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Among WRESTLERS In Türkiye

Among wrestlers born in Türkiye, Yaşar Erkan ranks 9. Before him are Hamit Kaplan (1934), Mahmut Atalay (1934), Mithat Bayrak (1929), Bayram Şit (1930), İsmail Ogan (1933), and Tevfik Kış (1934). After him are Ahmet Kireççi (1914), Taha Akgül (1990), Rıza Kayaalp (1989), Hamza Yerlikaya (1976), Yasemin Adar (1991), and Nazmi Avluca (1976).

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