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Helen Wainwright

1906 - 1965

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Helen E. Wainwright (March 15, 1906 – October 8, 1965), also known by her married name Helen Stelling, was a competition diver and swimmer for the Women's Swimming Association of New York, who represented the United States at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, where she won a silver medal in 3-meter springboard diving and in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, where she won a silver medal in the 400-meter freestyle. She remains the only woman to ever win Olympic silver medals in both swimming and diving. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Wainwright is the 190th most popular swimmer (down from 91st in 2019), the 11,531st most popular biography from United States (down from 8,947th in 2019) and the 81st most popular American Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Helen Wainwright ranks 190 out of 709. Before her are Michael Gross, Inge de Bruijn, Bill Smith, Annie Speirs, Rica Reinisch, and Mina Wylie. After her are Shiro Hashizume, Susan Pedersen, Missy Franklin, Albán Vermes, Sandra Morgan, and Roland Schoeman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Helen Wainwright ranks 416. Before her are Meindert DeJong, Romildo Etcheverry, Barney Bigard, Nii Amaa Ollennu, Károly Weichelt, and Willy Ley. After her are George Lott, Daulat Singh Kothari, Mississippi Fred McDowell, William Empson, Olive Borden, and Juan Argote. Among people deceased in 1965, Helen Wainwright ranks 226. Before her are Herb Drury, Hans Beyer, Robert Sjursen, Felix Frankfurter, Herbert Morrison, and Steve Cochran. After her are Lorraine Hansberry, Vasily Struve, Bessie Barriscale, Vajiha Samadova, Henry Weed Fowler, and Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Wainwright ranks 11,533 out of 20,380. Before her are April Bowlby (1980), John J. Crittenden (1787), Scott Grimes (1971), Bill Laswell (1955), Criss Oliva (1963), and Barbara Anderson (1945). After her are Aaron Carter (1987), Anthony Rapp (1971), Jim Loscutoff (1930), Martha Coolidge (1946), Kasey Rogers (1925), and John Clellon Holmes (1926).

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Among SWIMMERS In United States

Among swimmers born in United States, Helen Wainwright ranks 81. Before her are Raymond Thorne (1887), Amedee Reyburn (1889), John Hencken (1954), Marie Corridon (1930), Sybil Bauer (1903), and Bill Smith (1924). After her are Susan Pedersen (1953), Missy Franklin (1995), Allison Schmitt (1990), Dana Vollmer (1987), Matt Vogel (1957), and Kaye Hall (1951).

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