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Gerhard Stöck

1911 - 1985

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Gerhard Karl Eduard Stöck (28 July 1911 – 29 March 1985) was a German athlete and Nazi officer. He won the gold medal in the javelin throw event at the 1936 Summer Olympics and placed third in the shot put. Stöck was the son of a butcher. He was born in Kaiserswalde in 1911, a small village now located in Poland, and grew up in the Province of Posen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerhard Stöck is the 378th most popular athlete (up from 462nd in 2019), the 789th most popular biography from Poland (up from 927th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gerhard Stöck ranks 378 out of 6,025. Before him are Launceston Elliot, Eugenio Monti, Franjo Mihalić, Elmer Niklander, Harold Osborn, and Peter Norman. After him are Émile Fisseux, Jimmy Ball, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Terry Fox, and John Ainsworth-Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Gerhard Stöck ranks 185. Before him are Kaj Franck, Brunhilde Pomsel, Roy Rogers, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Ralph Kirkpatrick, and Broderick Crawford. After him are Arkady Raikin, Wolfgang Larrazábal, Michel Pablo, Martim Mércio da Silveira, Allan Pettersson, and Viktor Nekrasov. Among people deceased in 1985, Gerhard Stöck ranks 135. Before him are René Barjavel, Attilio Bettega, Francesca Bertini, Haruo Remeliik, Ana Mendieta, and Márton Bukovi. After him are Roger Sessions, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Yusuf Lule, Arnold Chikobava, Julie Vlasto, and Jan de Quay.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Gerhard Stöck ranks 789 out of 1,694. Before him are Fritz Laband (1925), Kazimierz Sabbat (1913), Edward Bernard Raczyński (1891), Hypatius Pociej (1541), Władysław Grabski (1874), and Theodor Kullak (1818). After him are Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski (1885), Karol Borsuk (1905), Michał Sopoćko (1888), Eugen Schüfftan (1893), Johann Dzierzon (1811), and Jan Olszewski (1930).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Gerhard Stöck ranks 10. Before him are Hans Woellke (1911), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Ursula Happe (1926), Józef Szmidt (1935), and Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934). After him are Walter Bathe (1892), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Kazimierz Barburski (1942), Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (1934), and Waldemar Baszanowski (1935).

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