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Duncan White

1918 - 1998

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Major Deshamanya Duncan M. White MBE, ED (1 March 1918 – 3 July 1998) was a Sri Lankan sportsman. He was the first Ceylonese athlete to win an Olympic medal, winning silver in the 400-metre hurdles at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. He was also the second South Asian to have won an Olympic medal in track and field after Norman Pritchard of India, with the third being Susanthika Jayasinghe, another Sri Lankan, who won a silver medal in the 200 metres in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Duncan White is the 1,691st most popular athlete (down from 1,568th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Sri Lanka and the 2nd most popular Sri Lankan Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Duncan White ranks 1,691 out of 6,025. Before him are Otto Licha, Juan Rodríguez, Daniel Kelly, Frank Dixon, María Pérez, and Romano Bonagura. After him are René Guyot, Charles Bouvier, Bernard Tchoullouyan, Alvah Meyer, George Goulding, and Alan Washbond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Duncan White ranks 279. Before him are Gastone Darè, Madeleine L'Engle, Rafael Iriondo, Spike Milligan, Sebastian Cabot, and André Bjerke. After him are Barney Ewell, Richard Hoggart, Mariano Mores, Norman Granz, Aleksandr Ponomarev, and Fedor Samokhin. Among people deceased in 1998, Duncan White ranks 274. Before him are Clark Clifford, Henry Spira, Givi Kartozia, Max Streibl, James Lighthill, and Anna J. Harrison. After him are Leo Buscaglia, Fred Davis, René Ferrier, Ricardo Tormo, Eleanor Garatti, and Persis Khambatta.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, Duncan White ranks 32 out of 51. Before him are Dingiri Banda Wijetunga (1916), Frederick G. Donnan (1870), Thomas Cooray (1901), Dinesh Gunawardena (1949), Dudley Senanayake (1911), and Bob Tisdall (1907). After him are Joyce Cooper (1909), Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1810), John Kotelawala (1897), Kumar Sangakkara (1977), Heather Armitage (1933), and Lakshman Kadirgamar (1932).

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Among ATHLETES In Sri Lanka

Among athletes born in Sri Lanka, Duncan White ranks 2. Before him are Bob Tisdall (1907). After him are Heather Armitage (1933), Susanthika Jayasinghe (1975), Mathilda Karlsson (null), Yupun Abeykoon (1994), and Nimali Liyanarachchi (null).

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