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Harold Abrahams

1899 - 1978

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Harold Maurice Abrahams (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete. He was Olympic champion in 1924 in the 100 metres sprint, a feat depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Abrahams is the 245th most popular athlete (down from 196th in 2019), the 2,509th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,343rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Harold Abrahams ranks 245 out of 6,025. Before him are Yelena Isinbayeva, Charley Borah, Adolfo Consolini, Vladimir Kuts, Waldemar Cierpinski, and Roger Bannister. After him are Gretel Bergmann, Viorica Viscopoleanu, Silvio Cator, Nina Ponomaryova, Bill Roberts, and August Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Harold Abrahams ranks 153. Before him are Leonid Leonov, Fritz von Opel, Sára Salkaházi, Anita Berber, Georg Leibbrandt, and Pierre Victor Auger. After him are Francis Ponge, Masujiro Nishida, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, Chief Dan George, Ramón Muttis, and Li Lisan. Among people deceased in 1978, Harold Abrahams ranks 122. Before him are Bernhard Karlgren, Costante Girardengo, Juan Evaristo, Warren Weaver, Raymond Braine, and Jerzy Kuryłowicz. After him are José Gonzalvo, Zivia Lubetkin, Franz Bäke, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Rudolf Svensson, and Raúl Alberto Lastiri.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Harold Abrahams ranks 2,510 out of 8,785. Before him are Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873), Alfred Edwards (1850), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Walter Pater (1839), Luke Howard (1772), and York Bowen (1884). After him are Paul Robinson (1979), John Fastolf (1380), Madge Syers (1881), Josephine Tey (1896), Robert Whitehead (1823), and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950).

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Among ATHLETES In United Kingdom

Among athletes born in United Kingdom, Harold Abrahams ranks 14. Before him are John Rimmer (1878), Don Thompson (1933), George S. Robertson (1872), Thomas Hicks (1876), Sebastian Coe (1956), and Roger Bannister (1929). After him are Bill Roberts (1912), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Edwin Flack (1873), John Ainsworth-Davis (1895), Jean Pickering (1929), and Wally Kinnear (1880).

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