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Barbara Sobotta

1936 - 2000

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Barbara Sobotta-Janiszewska (née Lerczak; December 4, 1936, in Poznań – November 20, 2000, in Kraków) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the women's sprint events during her career. In 1958 in Stockholm, she won the European Championships 200 metres race (as Maria Leontyavna Itkina won the bronze medal). She competed for Poland at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy where she won the bronze medal in the women's 4 × 100 metres with her teammates Teresa Wieczorek, Celina Jesionowska and Halina Richter. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Sobotta is the 2,060th most popular athlete (down from 1,184th in 2019), the 1,242nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,122nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Barbara Sobotta ranks 2,060 out of 6,025Before her are Khristo Markov, Franco Trincavelli, Désiré Beaurain, Alejandro Casañas, Jānis Bojārs, and Chira Apostol. After her are Igor Nikulin, George Campbell, Janet Simpson, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Mór Kóczán, and Olga Mineyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Barbara Sobotta ranks 528Before her are James Stacy, Elizabeth Dole, Gary Hart, Dick Cavett, Akwasi Afrifa, and Dick Richards. After her are Roger Staub, Salvador Reyes Monteón, Adán Godoy, Peter Hill-Wood, Michael Dertouzos, and Kalevi Oikarainen. Among people deceased in 2000, Barbara Sobotta ranks 324Before her are Kurt Schmid, Paul Bartel, Peter Dubovský, Ali Sardar Jafri, Bunny Austin, and Julius J. Epstein. After her are Iskandar Khatloni, Tranquilino Garcete, Big Pun, Mihály Mayer, Lynden Pindling, and Jafar Salmasi.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Barbara Sobotta ranks 1,242 out of 1,694Before her are Jan Urban (1962), Agnieszka Radwańska (1989), Artur Boruc (1980), Stefan Majewski (1956), Władysław Hasior (1928), and Jacek Kaczmarski (1957). After her are Rafał Majka (1989), Jan Domarski (1946), Marian Dudziak (1941), Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (1921), Andrzej Badeński (1943), and Stanisław Szozda (1950).

Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Barbara Sobotta ranks 48Before her are Teodor Kocerka (1927), Jacek Wszoła (1956), Arkadiusz Godel (1952), Bronisław Malinowski (1951), Marek Dąbrowski (1949), and Jan Kowalczyk (1941). After her are Marian Dudziak (1941), Andrzej Badeński (1943), Stanisław Szozda (1950), Ryszard Parulski (1938), Zbigniew Jaremski (1949), and Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (1937).