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Godfrey Rampling

1909 - 2009

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Godfrey Lionel Rampling (14 May 1909 – 20 June 2009) was an English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He turned 100 on 14 May 2009 and was the oldest living British Olympian at the time of his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Godfrey Rampling is the 999th most popular athlete (down from 784th in 2019), the 3,991st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,777th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Godfrey Rampling ranks 999 out of 6,025Before him are Bruno Boni, Thomas Munkelt, Raymond Salles, Robert Farnan, Bohumil Kudrna, and Albert Champoudry. After him are Zvonimir Vujin, Gjermund Eggen, Ingemar Johansson, Karel Lismont, Mirja Hietamies, and Gladys Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Godfrey Rampling ranks 302Before him are Ashapurna Devi, Georges Verriest, Wilhelm Müller, Norris Bradbury, Jaú, and Xie Fuzhi. After him are Karel Burkert, Ernesto Belis, Michael Rennie, Guillermo Eizaguirre, Peter Scott, and José María Minella. Among people deceased in 2009, Godfrey Rampling ranks 257Before him are Kamala Surayya, Kazuhiko Nishijima, Norbert Eschmann, Chuck Daly, Anselmo Duarte, and Mary Travers. After him are Ingemar Johansson, Daniel Jarque, Abel Goumba, Shyamala Gopalan, Val Avery, and Sergei Magnitsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Godfrey Rampling ranks 3,992 out of 8,785Before him are Francis Hauksbee (1660), Ralph Cudworth (1617), Nicholas Evans (1950), Grantley Goulding (1874), Henry Baker (1698), and Matthew Parker (1504). After him are Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760), David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay (1378), Thomas Linley the younger (1756), Hywel Dda (880), Gladys Davis (1893), and Chris Irwin (1942).

Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Godfrey Rampling ranks 40Before him are Dorothy Tyler-Odam (1920), Arthur Russell (1886), Tom Daley (1994), Tony Nash (1936), Victor d'Arcy (1887), and Robert Lindsay (1890). After him are Gladys Davis (1893), Peter Kemp (1878), Jack Broughton (1703), Robert Kerr (1882), Muriel Freeman (1897), and Jack Beresford (1899).