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Frederick Holman

1885 - 1913

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Frederick Holman (9 February 1883 – 23 January 1913) was an English competitive swimmer from Dawlish, Devon, England. Holman represented Great Britain at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where he won the gold medal in the men's 200-metre breaststroke event and did not compete in any other events. He died of typhoid fever in Exeter in January 1913, aged 29. He was married but had no children. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frederick Holman is the 12th most popular swimmer (up from 98th in 2019), the 2,492nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,615th in 2019) and the most popular British Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Frederick Holman ranks 12 out of 709. Before him are Mike Troy, Rie Mastenbroek, Jimmy McLane, Duke Kahanamoku, Charlie Hickcox, and Wally Ris. After him are Katalin Szőke, Doug Russell, Carolyn Schuler, Galina Prozumenshchikova, István Bárány, and Kornelia Ender.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Frederick Holman ranks 120. Before him are Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Muslim Magomayev, Theodor Kaluza, Charles Dullin, Wallace Beery, and Francisco Olazar. After him are Elihan Tore, Emil Väre, Dimitrios Loundras, Jan Czochralski, Rolf Carls, and Nils von Kantzow. Among people deceased in 1913, Frederick Holman ranks 51. Before him are Karl Wittgenstein, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Marie Popelin, Hjalmar Johansen, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, and Mikoláš Aleš. After him are Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani, Camille Jenatzy, Kâmil Pasha, E. Pauline Johnson, and Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frederick Holman ranks 2,493 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455), Ken Annakin (1914), J. F. C. Fuller (1878), Dion Fortune (1890), Geraldine James (1950), and Benedict Biscop (628). After him are Jane Asher (1946), Roger Bannister (1929), Colin Groves (1942), Sadiq Khan (1970), Alfred Ewing (1855), and Robert Brown (1921).

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Among SWIMMERS In United Kingdom

Among swimmers born in United Kingdom, Frederick Holman ranks 1. After him are John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Henry Taylor (1885), Murray Rose (1939), John Derbyshire (1878), Belle Moore (1894), Jennie Fletcher (1890), Irene Steer (1889), Lucy Morton (1898), Valerie Davies (1912), Annie Speirs (1889), and Hilda James (1904).

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