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Cecil Griffiths

1900 - 1945

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Cecil Redvers Griffiths (18 February 1900 – 11 April 1945) was a Welsh athlete who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was subsequently barred from competing at the 1924 Summer Olympics due to a ruling that he had competed as a professional during his early career, but continued to successfully race in domestic competitions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cecil Griffiths is the 1,465th most popular athlete (down from 793rd in 2019), the 4,530th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,808th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Cecil Griffiths ranks 1,465 out of 6,025Before him are Dave Power, Salvatore Morale, Leonid Taranenko, Raphaël Poirée, Viktor Mamatov, and Frederick Sheffield. After him are Alois Schnabel, Barbara Ferrell, Fleur Mellor, Matt McGrath, Pepi Bader, and Manfred Schmid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Cecil Griffiths ranks 277Before him are Ernst Ising, Jack Cameron, Simon Janashia, Rudolf Lippert, Stefanie Clausen, and Devdas Gandhi. After him are Lőrinc Szabó, Carlos Hevia, Henri Cohen, Giuseppe Crivelli, Konrad Granström, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky. Among people deceased in 1945, Cecil Griffiths ranks 328Before him are Johannes Block, Boris Galerkin, El-Registan, Rudolf Lippert, Pietro Speciale, and John R. Commons. After him are Heinrich Schroth, Adolf Bartels, Ferdinand Kiefler, Lucille La Verne, Wilhelm Wirtinger, and Takashi Yokoyama.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cecil Griffiths ranks 4,531 out of 8,785Before him are Ivor Allchurch (1929), Roger Allam (1953), Robert Morison (1620), Michael Crawford (1942), Sophie Muller (1962), and Alan Clark (1952). After him are Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862), Kingsley Ben-Adir (1986), James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife (1929), William Martin Leake (1777), Calvin Harris (1984), and Robin Trower (1945).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Cecil Griffiths ranks 58Before him are Sonia Robertson (1947), Sidney Robinson (1876), William Henry Dean (1887), Dorothy Manley (1927), Harry Blackstaffe (1868), and John Fenning (1885). After him are Barbara Burke (1917), George Cornet (1877), Phyllis Johnson (1886), Harold Whitlock (1903), Gordon Pirie (1931), and Heather Oakes (1959).