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Arthur Tell Schwab

1896 - 1945

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Arthur Tell Schwab (4 September 1896 – 27 February 1945) was a Swiss race walker. He won an Olympic silver medal over 50 kilometres in Berlin 1936. Two years earlier he had won a silver medal at the European Championships. His son Erich Arthur Fritz Schwab won an Olympic bronze medal in 1948 and a silver in 1952 over 10 kilometres walk. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Tell Schwab is the 650th most popular athlete (up from 1,326th in 2019), the 4,350th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,221st in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Arthur Tell Schwab ranks 650 out of 6,025. Before him are William Jordan, Richard Thompson, Jean Bouin, Carl Goßler, André Gaudin, and Janne Lundblad. After him are Birgit Fischer, Norma Croker, Shirley Strickland, Stan Rowley, Giuseppe Gentile, and Yelizaveta Dementyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Arthur Tell Schwab ranks 192. Before him are J. Lawton Collins, Gerardo Diego, Steponas Darius, William Gopallawa, Ivan Merz, and Sofya Yanovskaya. After him are Kim Iryeop, Art Langley, Gerhard Fieseler, Kim Myeong-sun, Heinz Prüfer, and Marion Zinderstein. Among people deceased in 1945, Arthur Tell Schwab ranks 276. Before him are János Garay, Osip Brik, Italo Santelli, Eddie Slovik, Karl Decker, and Pierre Cérésole. After him are Maurice Sachs, Dobri Bozhilov, Vilmos Apor, Ferenc Csik, Anders Larsson, and Bruno Frank.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Tell Schwab ranks 4,352 out of 7,253. Before him are Bill Brandt (1904), Erna Berger (1900), Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Marco Rose (1976), and Carl Goßler (1885). After him are Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1627), Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Bel Kaufman (1911), Birgit Fischer (1962), Konrad von Würzburg (1225), and Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824).

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Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Arthur Tell Schwab ranks 36. Before him are Heike Drechsler (1964), Hartmut Briesenick (1949), Ellen Braumüller (1910), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Hugo Strauß (1907), and Carl Goßler (1885). After him are Birgit Fischer (1962), Käthe Krauss (1906), Elfriede Kaun (1914), Rita Kühne (1947), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), and Arthur Jonath (1909).

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