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Helene Mayer

1910 - 1953

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Helene Julie Mayer (20 December 1910 – 10 October 1953) was a German fencer who won the gold medal at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, and the silver medal at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. She competed for Nazi Germany in Berlin, despite having been forced to leave Germany in 1935 and resettle in the United States because she was of Jewish descent. She studied at American universities, and later returned to Germany in 1952 where she died of breast cancer. Mayer had been called the greatest female fencer of all time, and was named by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top 100 Female Athletes of the 20th Century, but her legacy remains clouded. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helene Mayer is the 6th most popular fencer (down from 5th in 2019), the 2,860th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,582nd in 2019) and the most popular German Fencer.

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Among FENCERS

Among fencers, Helene Mayer ranks 6 out of 349. Before her are Nedo Nadi, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Ilona Elek, Daniel Revenu, and Paul Anspach. After her are Olga Szabó-Orbán, Endre Kabos, Lucien Gaudin, Émile Coste, Gianluigi Saccaro, and Lajos Werkner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Helene Mayer ranks 134. Before her are Richard Conte, Pierre Bézier, Rachel Kempson, Scatman Crothers, Carmine Coppola, and Yusof Ishak. After her are Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Heinrich Sutermeister, Robert B. Anderson, Jorge Negrete, Giulietta Simionato, and Bauyrzhan Momyshuly. Among people deceased in 1953, Helene Mayer ranks 77. Before her are Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Holger Pedersen, James Finlayson, Nikolay Zelinsky, Vsevolod Merkulov, and Vydūnas. After her are Xu Beihong, Vladimir Dekanozov, Jorge Negrete, Joseph Jongen, Şükrü Saracoğlu, and Hilaire Belloc.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helene Mayer ranks 2,862 out of 7,253. Before her are Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1877), Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1659), William, Prince of Wied (1845), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Eric Braeden (1941), and Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679). After her are Hellmuth Walter (1900), Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Karin Balzer (1938), and Willi Graf (1918).

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Among FENCERS In Germany

Among fencers born in Germany, Helene Mayer ranks 1. After her are Ellen Preis (1912), Olga Oelkers (1887), August Heim (1904), Arnd Schmitt (1965), Anja Fichtel (1968), Britta Heidemann (1982), Peter Joppich (1982), Jörg Fiedler (1978), Benjamin Kleibrink (1985), Imke Duplitzer (1975), and Sebastian Bachmann (1986).

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