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Commodore Cochran

1902 - 1969

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Commodore Shelton "Com" Cochran (January 20, 1902 – January 3, 1969) was an American athlete, winner of a gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Mississippi and died in San Francisco, California. As a Mississippi State University student, Commodore Cochran won the NCAA championships in 440-yard dash in 1922 and 1923. At the Paris Olympics, Cochran ran the opening leg in American 4 × 400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new world record of 3:16.0. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Commodore Cochran is the 1,255th most popular athlete (up from 1,387th in 2019), the 8,396th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,209th in 2019) and the 249th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Commodore Cochran ranks 1,255 out of 6,025. Before him are Heinz Ulzheimer, Tullio Baraglia, Jadwiga Wajs, Duvall Hecht, Romano Sgheiz, and Joseph Perotaux. After him are Heinrich Peters, Per Berlin, Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Noureddine Morceli, Vasile Tiță, and Edward Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Commodore Cochran ranks 270. Before him are Paul Bontemps, Bronisław Kaper, Chet Miller, Jaime Torres Bodet, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, and Sergei Lemeshev. After him are Erast Garin, Tor Johnson, Victor Jory, Sida Košutić, William Cockburn, and Evelyn Colyer. Among people deceased in 1969, Commodore Cochran ranks 202. Before him are Óscar Osorio, Natalie Talmadge, Leigh Harline, Giuseppe Viani, Oswald Holmberg, and Josef Hassmann. After him are Muhammad Fareed Didi, Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, Miles Dempsey, Hans Rademacher, and Károly Fogl.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Commodore Cochran ranks 8,398 out of 20,380. Before him are Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986), Avery Brooks (1948), Eric Szmanda (1975), Joan Van Ark (1943), John P. Kennedy (1795), and Ninja (1991). After him are Whitney Smith (1940), Harve Presnell (1933), Mark Snow (1946), Jimmy Giuffre (1921), Hamilton Fish (1808), and Mary Carey (1980).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Commodore Cochran ranks 249. Before him are Catherine Hardy Lavender (1930), Carl Osburn (1884), Fred Hansen (1940), Bud Houser (1901), Clyde King (1898), and Duvall Hecht (1930). After him are Edward Moore (1897), Charles Kieffer (1910), Louis Kuehn (1901), Hector Dyer (1910), James Rector (1884), and Frank Hussey (1905).

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