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Elfriede Kaun

1914 - 2008

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Elfriede Kaun (5 October 1914 – 5 March 2008) was a German high jumper. Born in Büttel, Steinburg, she won the bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Her personal best jump was 1.63 metres. She competed for the sports club Kieler TV, and died in 2008 in Kiel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elfriede Kaun is the 658th most popular athlete (down from 652nd in 2019), the 4,367th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,598th in 2019) and the 39th most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Elfriede Kaun ranks 658 out of 6,025Before her are Norma Croker, Shirley Strickland, Stan Rowley, Giuseppe Gentile, Yelizaveta Dementyeva, and Käthe Krauss. After her are Keto Losaberidze, Otis Davis, Liz Chase, Arthur Shaw, Henri Deloge, and Albert Nasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Elfriede Kaun ranks 258Before her are Emmanuel Roblès, Carl Scarborough, Gisèle Casadesus, Jijé, Hugh Trevor-Roper, and Sueo Ōe. After her are Hermínio de Brito, Julián Marías, Orhan Kemal, Yrjö Nikkanen, Jeff Corey, and Adolf Urban. Among people deceased in 2008, Elfriede Kaun ranks 225Before her are Károly Németh, Ennio de Concini, Nadezhda Rumyantseva, Carole Caldwell Graebner, Barry Morse, and Mikhail Pugovkin. After her are Mario Rigoni Stern, Nikola Kljusev, Evelyn Keyes, Sœur Emmanuelle, Natalia Bessmertnova, and Van Johnson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elfriede Kaun ranks 4,369 out of 7,253Before her are Josef Gauchel (1916), Kito Lorenc (1938), Reinhold Begas (1831), Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg (1584), Gerhard Fieseler (1896), and Käthe Krauss (1906). After her are Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Günter Bernard (1939), Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1570), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Sylvester Groth (1958), and Manfred Burgsmüller (1949).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Elfriede Kaun ranks 39Before her are Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Hugo Strauß (1907), Carl Goßler (1885), Arthur Tell Schwab (1896), Birgit Fischer (1962), and Käthe Krauss (1906). After her are Rita Kühne (1947), Hans Günter Winkler (1926), Arthur Jonath (1909), Hermann Wilker (1874), Marita Lange (1943), and Christoph Höhne (1941).