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Egon Franke

1935 - 2022

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Egon Johann Franke (23 October 1935 – 30 March 2022) was a Polish fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition. He won a gold medal in the individual foil at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He also received a team silver medal in 1964 and a bronze medal in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Egon Franke is the 41st most popular fencer (up from 84th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,130th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Fencer.

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Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Egon Franke ranks 41 out of 349. Before him are Alexandre Lippmann, Jacques Ochs, Franco Riccardi, Grigory Kriss, Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier, and János Garay. After him are Dario Mangiarotti, István Kausz, Italo Santelli, Guram Kostava, Ildikó Schwarczenberger, and Christian Noël.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Egon Franke ranks 287. Before him are Josef Vojta, Sabahudin Kurt, Paul Chambers, Grigore Vieru, Ivo Trumbić, and Agnes Simon. After him are Fujio Akatsuka, Don Bragg, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Kenneth Mars, Grant Green, and Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi. Among people deceased in 2022, Egon Franke ranks 327. Before him are Margit Korondi, Severino Poletto, Georgi Atanasov, Ri Yong-ho, Vesa-Matti Loiri, and Gheorghe Berceanu. After him are Eva-Maria Hagen, Jean Philippe, Herbert W. Franke, John Steiner, Zhang Jie, and Fernando Chalana.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Egon Franke ranks 892 out of 1,694. Before him are Józef Chełmoński (1849), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Israel Gutman (1923), Ignacy Potocki (1750), Henryk Sławik (1894), and Max Gerson (1881). After him are Józef Mehoffer (1869), Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak (1951), Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Tomasz Stańko (1942), Eva-Maria Hagen (1934), and Willibald Alexis (1798).

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Among FENCERS In Poland

Among fencers born in Poland, Egon Franke ranks 1. After him are Erna Bogen-Bogáti (1906), Tadeusz Friedrich (1903), Lech Koziejowski (1949), Tomasz Motyka (1981), Bartosz Piasecki (1986), Radosław Zawrotniak (1981), Sylwia Gruchała (1981), Renata Knapik-Miazga (1988), Dagmara Wozniak (1988), and Martyna Jelińska (1992).

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