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Yohan Blake

1989 - Today

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Yohan Blake (born 26 December 1989) is a Jamaican sprinter specialising in the 100-metre and 200-metre sprint races. He won gold at the 100m at the 2011 World Athletics Championships as the youngest 100m world champion ever, and a silver medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the 100m and 200m races for the Jamaican team behind Usain Bolt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yohan Blake has received more than 2,749,520 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Yohan Blake is the 1,209th most popular athlete (up from 1,387th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 55th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Jamaican Athlete.

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  • 45

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  • 6.78

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  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yohan Blake ranks 1,209 out of 6,025Before him are Hildegard Falck, Teodor Koskenniemi, Ernest Hamilton, Veli Lehtelä, Vladimir Belousov, and Marie-José Pérec. After him are Torfi Bryngeirsson, Lily Carlstedt, Mary Frizzell, Valentin Gavrilov, Sven Fahlman, and Rudolf Lippert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Yohan Blake ranks 75Before him are Ander Herrera, Carlos Vela, Aleix Vidal, André Ayew, Joe Jonas, and Adel Taarabt. After him are Anna Polina, Daniel Parejo, Matthew Lewis, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Taeyeon, and Marcel Hirscher.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Yohan Blake ranks 53 out of 189Before him are Michael Manley (1924), Jacob Miller (1952), George Kerr (1937), Linton Kwesi Johnson (1952), Lennox Miller (1946), and Claude McKay (1889). After him are Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919), Arthur Wint (1920), Damian Marley (1978), Augustus Pablo (1954), Shawn Rhoden (1975), and Alton Ellis (1938).

Among ATHLETES In Jamaica

Among athletes born in Jamaica, Yohan Blake ranks 10Before him are Asafa Powell (1982), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (1986), George Rhoden (1926), Don Quarrie (1951), George Kerr (1937), and Lennox Miller (1946). After him are Arthur Wint (1920), Shawn Rhoden (1975), Herb McKenley (1922), Linford Christie (1960), Donovan Bailey (1967), and Nesta Carter (1985).