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Hildegard Falck

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Hildegard Falck (née Janze on 8 June 1949) is a retired West German runner. At the 1972 Olympics she won a gold medal in the 800 m and a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay with West German team. In the 800 m final she finished 0.1 seconds ahead of Nijolė Sabaitė and Gunhild Hoffmeister. On 11 July 1971 Falck ran the 800 m in 1:58.5 minutes in Stuttgart, improving the world record of Vera Nikolic by two seconds. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hildegard Falck is the 982nd most popular athlete (up from 1,244th in 2019), the 4,751st most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,144th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular German Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hildegard Falck ranks 982 out of 6,025. Before her are Ottó Boros, Miklós Szilvási, Ulrike Meyfarth, Sidney Johnson, Jorma Valkama, and Paul Weinstein. After her are Thorvald Strömberg, Petra Felke, Gunnar Lindström, Jean Piot, Chrétien Waydelich, and Gaston Amson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Hildegard Falck ranks 469. Before her are John Podesta, Emma Kirkby, Vladimír Martinec, Jamaica Kincaid, Carlo Petrini, and Fred Frith. After her are Philippe Descola, Karel Lismont, Jean Kalala N'Tumba, Alaa Hussein Ali, Takeshi Shudo, and Helga Seidler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hildegard Falck ranks 4,754 out of 7,253. Before her are Claudia Roth (1955), Joseph Meyer (1796), Theodor Fischer (1862), Ulrike Meyfarth (1956), Theodor Plievier (1892), and Paul Weinstein (1878). After her are David Garrett (1980), Petra Felke (1959), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Willi Giesemann (1937), Dieter Krause (1936), and Botho Strauß (1944).

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