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Betty Robinson

1911 - 1999

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Elizabeth R. Schwartz (née Robinson; August 23, 1911 – May 18, 1999) was an American athlete and winner of the first Olympic 100 metres for women. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Betty Robinson is the 486th most popular athlete (down from 65th in 2019), the 5,886th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,376th in 2019) and the 121st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Betty Robinson ranks 486 out of 6,025Before her are Grete Waitz, Christa Stubnick, Alice Brown, Boris Melnikov, Gisela Birkemeyer, and Veikko Karvonen. After her are Veikko Kankkonen, Jean Pickering, Rafer Johnson, Paavo Yrjölä, Milan Nenadić, and Steinar Amundsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Betty Robinson ranks 200Before her are Mahmoud Taleghani, Mario Perazzolo, Paris Pişmiş, Antonio Sastre, Franz Wagner, and Mary Blair. After her are Guido del Mestri, Marie Osborne Yeats, Yang Jiang, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Ronald Neame, and Gustave Gilbert. Among people deceased in 1999, Betty Robinson ranks 161Before her are Jehan Buhan, Riccardo Freda, Art Farmer, John Bromwich, Louis Boyer, and Paris Pişmiş. After her are Albert Charles Smith, Igor M. Diakonoff, Minoru Chiaki, Jacques Lecoq, Riccardo Cucciolla, and Fritzi Burger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betty Robinson ranks 5,886 out of 20,380Before her are Joe Dallesandro (1948), Zelda Rubinstein (1933), Chuck Hagel (1946), George Huntington (1850), Claudette Colvin (1939), and Rick Aviles (1952). After her are Ona Munson (1903), Maxwell Perkins (1884), George Nichols (1864), Eric S. Raymond (1957), Rafer Johnson (1935), and Ken Davitian (1953).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Betty Robinson ranks 121Before her are Ed Hamm (1906), Frank Irons (1886), Platt Adams (1885), Mike Conley Sr. (1962), Vince Gallagher (1899), and Alice Brown (1960). After her are Rafer Johnson (1935), Donald Lippincott (1893), Mildred McDaniel (1933), Leo Sexton (1909), William Gilmore (1895), and Steve Anderson (1906).