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Hans Günter Winkler

1926 - 2018

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Hans Günter Winkler (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈɡʏntɐ ˈvɪŋklɐ] ; 24 July 1926 – 9 July 2018) was a German show jumper. He is the only show jumper to have won five Olympic gold medals and a total of seven Olympic medals, and to compete and win medals in six different Olympic Games. In the 1950s and 1960s Winkler was one of Germany's most popular athletes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Günter Winkler is the 679th most popular athlete (down from 470th in 2019), the 4,405th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,331st in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hans Günter Winkler ranks 679 out of 6,025Before him are Chūhei Nambu, Tore Sjöstrand, Charles Bacon, Arnie Robinson, Rita Kühne, and Jay Cutler. After him are Colette Besson, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Johan Jarlén, Arthur Jonath, Edwin Mills, and Dumitru Pârvulescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Hans Günter Winkler ranks 316Before him are Bryan Johnson, Hong Deok-young, René Depestre, Edmund Purdom, Julius Katchen, and Abdur Rahman Biswas. After him are Fritz Stern, Ede Király, Marcello Abbado, Pino Dordoni, Franco Faggi, and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. Among people deceased in 2018, Hans Günter Winkler ranks 303Before him are María Dolores Pradera, Liz Chase, Judith Rich Harris, Geoff Emerick, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, and Oliver Ivanović. After him are Chuck McCann, Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Domenico Losurdo, Frank Havens, Ehsan Yarshater, and Reinhard Hardegen.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Günter Winkler ranks 4,407 out of 7,253Before him are Uschi Glas (1944), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Philip, Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg (1503), Fritz Noether (1884), Hans-Emil Schuster (1934), and Heinrich Gelzer (1847). After him are Camilla Horn (1903), Ernst Hartwig (1851), Theo Lingen (1903), Lian Ross (1962), Arthur Jonath (1909), and Adolf Urban (1914).

Among ATHLETES In Germany

Among athletes born in Germany, Hans Günter Winkler ranks 41Before him are Carl Goßler (1885), Arthur Tell Schwab (1896), Birgit Fischer (1962), Käthe Krauss (1906), Elfriede Kaun (1914), and Rita Kühne (1947). After him are Arthur Jonath (1909), Hermann Wilker (1874), Marita Lange (1943), Christoph Höhne (1941), Hildrun Laufer-Claus (1939), and Evelin Jahl (1956).