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Forrest Towns

1914 - 1991

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Forrest Grady "Spec" Towns (February 6, 1914 – April 9, 1991) was an American track and field athlete. He was the 1936 Olympic champion in the 110 m hurdles and broke the world record in that event three times. Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Towns grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he played football in high school at Richmond Academy. In 1933, he earned a football scholarship to the University of Georgia (UGA) after a sports journalist had seen him high jumping in his backyard. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Forrest Towns is the 1,647th most popular athlete (up from 2,017th in 2019), the 9,503rd most popular biography from United States (up from 11,144th in 2019) and the 304th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Forrest Towns ranks 1,647 out of 6,025. Before him are Erik Elmsäter, Robert Stangland, Masao Harada, Gösta Runö, Emil Magnusson, and Margit Schumann. After him are Christina Lathan, Giuseppina Leone, Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, Naohiro Ikeda, John Norton, and Ursula Knab.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Forrest Towns ranks 360. Before him are Élie Bayol, Mauk Weber, Hans Theilig, Franz Bistricky, Mary Carlisle, and Hideko Maehata. After him are Josef Peters, R. A. Lafferty, John Berryman, Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Franz von Werra, and Andreas Kupfer. Among people deceased in 1991, Forrest Towns ranks 231. Before him are Alden Sanborn, Henri Louveau, Oreste Corbatta, Stan Mortensen, John Russell, and Pat O'Callaghan. After him are Steve Clark, Gordon Pirie, Aline MacMahon, Ismat Chughtai, Eleanor Boardman, and Antoine Blondin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Forrest Towns ranks 9,505 out of 20,380. Before him are JJ Feild (1978), Julie Gibson (1913), William Blum (1933), Jack Angel (1930), Zach McGowan (1980), and Paula Prentiss (1938). After him are Molly Cheek (1950), Jaden Smith (1998), Elizabeth Gutiérrez (1979), Dan Rather (1931), John Norton (1893), and Gregory Helms (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Forrest Towns ranks 304. Before him are Alfred Lane (1891), Fred Tootell (1902), Wilhelmina von Bremen (1909), Charles Jenkins Sr. (1934), Burton Downing (1885), and Robert Stangland (1881). After him are John Norton (1893), Marjorie Gestring (1922), Francis Tyler (1904), Nathaniel Cartmell (1883), Max Emmerich (1879), and Daniel Kelly (1883).

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