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František Janda-Suk

1878 - 1955

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František Janda-Suk (Czech pronunciation: [ˈfrancɪʃɛk ˈjanda ˈsuk], 25 March 1878 – 23 June 1955) was a Czech athlete who competed for Bohemia in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics and Czechoslovakia at the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Postřižín near Roudnice nad Labem and died in Prague. In the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, where he won the silver medal in the discus throw. He - and the Hungarian Rudolf Bauer - was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. František Janda-Suk is the 529th most popular athlete (up from 531st in 2019), the 528th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 581st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, František Janda-Suk ranks 529 out of 6,025. Before him are Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Arvo Askola, William Gilmore, František Pospíšil, Steve Anderson, and Jānis Daliņš. After him are Thelma Hopkins, Rune Larsson, Tatyana Shchelkanova, Eddie Hart, Yiannis Kouros, and Natalya Lisovskaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, František Janda-Suk ranks 172. Before him are Agner Krarup Erlang, Nikolai Avksentiev, Carl Sternheim, Gaston Alibert, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Richard Goldschmidt. After him are Leonhard Kaupisch, Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Alexander Svechin, Fidel Dávila Arrondo, José Berraondo, and Pamela Colman Smith. Among people deceased in 1955, František Janda-Suk ranks 114. Before him are Hamida Javanshir, William R. Orthwein, Helena Roerich, Martha Norelius, Ona Munson, and Karl Hofer. After him are Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, Willi Baumeister, Tom Moore, Constance Collier, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Leonardus Nardus.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, František Janda-Suk ranks 528 out of 1,200. Before him are Valentin Loos (1895), Ehrenfried Patzel (1914), František Pospíšil (1944), Moritz Steinschneider (1816), Josef Musil (1932), and Ladislav Ženíšek (1904). After him are Peter Ducke (1941), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), Hugo Haas (1901), Karl Deutsch (1912), Josef Kajetán Tyl (1808), and Alexander Dreyschock (1818).

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Among ATHLETES In Czechia

Among athletes born in Czechia, František Janda-Suk ranks 9. Before him are Jan Železný (1966), Dominik Hašek (1965), František Čapek (1914), Ludvík Daněk (1937), Olga Fikotová (1932), and František Pospíšil (1944). After him are Gerhard Auer (1943), František Douda (1908), Karel Mejta Sr (1928), Jan Brzák-Felix (1912), Jaroslav Holík (1942), and Jiří Skobla (1930).

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