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Halina Konopacka

1900 - 1989

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Halina Konopacka (full name Leonarda Kazimiera Konopacka-Matuszewska-Szczerbińska; 26 February 1900 – 28 January 1989) was a Polish athlete. She won the discus throw event at the 1928 Summer Olympics, defeating American silver medal winner Lillian Copeland, breaking her own world record, and becoming the first Polish Olympic champion. After retiring from athletics she became a writer and poet. She immigrated to the United States after World War II, and died there. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Halina Konopacka is the 3,824th most popular writer (down from 3,172nd in 2019), the 814th most popular biography from Poland (down from 698th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Halina Konopacka ranks 3,824 out of 7,302. Before her are Ferenc Kölcsey, Mascha Kaléko, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, Charles Blanc, Ryhor Baradulin, and Nancy Mitford. After her are Jean Echenoz, Zoe Akins, Ruben Sevak, Sara Teasdale, Luis Vélez de Guevara, and Elias Khoury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Halina Konopacka ranks 189. Before her are Charles Jewtraw, Sumitranandan Pant, Catherine Hessling, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Panagiotis Pavlidis, and Mikhail Isakovsky. After her are Dumarsais Estimé, Jiří Wolker, Gilberto Freyre, Bruno Apitz, George Calnan, and Haskell Curry. Among people deceased in 1989, Halina Konopacka ranks 166. Before her are Clyde Geronimi, Luiz Gonzaga, Merab Kostava, Donald Barthelme, Hilmar Baunsgaard, and Nikolai Grinko. After her are Arsenie Boca, Veniamin Kaverin, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Ugo Pignotti, and Georges Schehadé.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Halina Konopacka ranks 814 out of 1,694. Before her are Mascha Kaléko (1907), Jerzy Żuławski (1874), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Jacob Heinrich von Flemming (1667), Arnold Mendelssohn (1855), and Holger Czukay (1938). After her are Jan Kiepura (1902), Konrad Krajewski (1963), Józef Oleksy (1946), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), Ryszard Kukliński (1930), and Anna Maria Jopek (1970).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Halina Konopacka ranks 91. Before her are Johann Christian Günther (1695), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Marcin Kromer (1512), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), and Mascha Kaléko (1907). After her are Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Zofia Nałkowska (1884), Alfred Kerr (1867), Jan Kott (1914), and Jurek Becker (1937).

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