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Harry Babcock

1890 - 1965

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Henry Stoddard Babcock (December 15, 1890 – June 5, 1965) was an American pole vaulter who won the gold medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics, setting an Olympic record at 3.95 meters. Babcock started as a long jumper and, only around 1910, changed to the pole vault. He graduated in engineering from Columbia University in 1912 and later worked as a salesman with a lumber company in Irvington, New York. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry Babcock is the 93rd most popular athlete (up from 1,049th in 2019), the 3,150th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,296th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Harry Babcock ranks 93 out of 6,025. Before him are Valeriy Brumel, Friedrich Traun, Inese Jaunzeme, David Jacobs, Roman Steinberg, and Myer Prinstein. After him are John Taylor, Irina Press, Eric Liddell, Tommie Smith, Ken Carpenter, and Pyotr Bolotnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Harry Babcock ranks 89. Before him are Henrich Focke, He Yingqin, Solomon Mikhoels, Louis Delluc, Alois Eliáš, and Elizabeth Bolden. After him are Ferruccio Parri, Evert Taube, Walter Weiß, Erik Heinrichs, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, and Johannes Vares. Among people deceased in 1965, Harry Babcock ranks 68. Before him are Porfirio Rubirosa, Oskar R. Lange, Shirley Jackson, Ladislas Starevich, Kōdō Sawaki, and La Belle Otero. After him are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Louis Harold Gray, Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, Leopold Figl, Odile Defraye, and Erik Heinrichs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry Babcock ranks 3,150 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeffrey Tambor (1944), Marie Tharp (1920), John Layfield (1966), Chris Sarandon (1942), Harold Prince (1928), and Harry Reems (1947). After him are Katy Perry (1984), George B. McClellan (1826), John Taylor (1883), John Leslie (1945), Walter Lantz (1899), and Tom Sizemore (1961).

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Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Harry Babcock ranks 31. Before him are Glenn Davis (1934), Charles Moore (1929), Wilma Rudolph (1940), Jack Shea (1910), Charles Greene (1945), and Eddie Eagan (1897). After him are John Taylor (1883), Tommie Smith (1944), Ken Carpenter (1913), Joe Rantz (1914), Frank Zane (1942), and Fred Newhouse (1948).

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