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Greg Rutherford

1986 - Today

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Gregory James Rutherford (born 17 November 1986) is a retired British track and field athlete who specialised in the long jump. He represented Great Britain at the Olympics, World and European Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. Rutherford is the most recent of only five athletes to win the ''Grand Slam" of Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles in the same event and the only one also to win the Diamond League. A European Junior Champion in 2005, Rutherford first made a mark on the senior circuit with a silver medal in the 2006 European Athletics Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Greg Rutherford is the 7,342nd most popular athlete (down from 6,551st in 2024), the 8,457th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 8,158th in 2019) and the 248th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Greg Rutherford ranks 7,342 out of 6,025. Before him are Ryan Suter, Jaouad Achab, Margot van Geffen, Leong Mun Yee, René Holten Poulsen, and Balázs Erdélyi. After him are Saga Vanninen, Robert Heffernan, Wang Zongyuan, Stepan Maryanyan, Pablo Martínez, and Wang Bingyu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1986, Greg Rutherford ranks 1,786. Before him are Matías Cabrera, Yoshiki Hiraki, Georgia King, Sriti Jha, Walter Acevedo, and Rob Klinkhammer. After him are Masaki Watanabe, Manu García, Masato Fujita, Adán Balbín, Žarko Marković, and Michael Kightly.

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Greg Rutherford ranks 248. Before him are Spencer Wilton (1973), Jonny Searle (1969), Paul Bennett (1988), Liam Heath (1984), Zoe Lee (1985), and Simon Dennis (1976). After him are Chris Tomlinson (1981), Nick Dempsey (1980), Frances Houghton (1980), Scott Brash (1985), Martyn Rooney (1987), and Gemma Gibbons (1987).

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