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Alain Mimoun

1921 - 2013

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Alain Mimoun, born Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha (1 January 1921 – 27 June 2013), was a French long-distance runner who competed in track events, cross-country running and the marathon. He was the 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon. He is the most bemedalled French athletics sportsperson in history. In 1999, readers of the French athletics magazine Athlétisme Magazine voted him as the “French Athlete of the 20th Century”. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alain Mimoun is the 305th most popular athlete (down from 205th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Algeria (up from 96th in 2019) and the most popular Algerian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Alain Mimoun ranks 305 out of 6,025. Before him are Larry Black, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Jim Thorpe, Gyula Zsivótzky, Albert Ayat, and Romuald Klim. After him are Eddie Tolan, Frank Waller, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Prosper Bruggeman, Karen Hoff, and Jürgen Schult.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Alain Mimoun ranks 201. Before him are Giorgio Strehler, Gaston Rébuffat, Georges Mathieu, Reuven Feuerstein, Theodore Van Kirk, and John Aston Sr.. After him are Oldřich Černík, Karen Hoff, Jeanne Demessieux, Naomi Parker Fraley, Juan Zambudio Velasco, and Branko Mamula. Among people deceased in 2013, Alain Mimoun ranks 193. Before him are Elmore Leonard, Gerrie Mühren, Robert Ressler, Josip Kuže, Emile Griffith, and John Tavener. After him are Hiroshi Nakajima, Saye Zerbo, Anca Petrescu, Yusef Lateef, Richie Havens, and Armando Trovajoli.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Alain Mimoun ranks 94 out of 213. Before him are Abderrahmane Farès (1911), Fernand Bouisson (1874), Thelma Schoonmaker (1940), Alain Chabat (1958), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), and Alexandre Villaplane (1905). After him are Idir (1949), Pierre Blanchar (1892), Patrick Bruel (1959), Optatus (400), Lakhdar Belloumi (1958), and Mouloud Mammeri (1917).

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Among ATHLETES In Algeria

Among athletes born in Algeria, Alain Mimoun ranks 1. After him are Boughera El Ouafi (1898), Hassiba Boulmerka (1968), Noureddine Morceli (1970), Nouria Mérah-Benida (1970), Djabir Saïd-Guerni (1977), Ali Saïdi-Sief (1978), Amar Benikhlef (1982), Taoufik Makhloufi (1988), Brenno (null), Abderrahmane Hammad (1977), and Nassima Saifi (1988).

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