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Ivan Fuqua

1909 - 1994

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Ivan William Fuqua (August 11, 1909 – January 14, 1994) was an American athlete, a gold medal winner in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was a sophomore at Indiana University and was IU’s first Olympic Gold Medalist. Their team set a world record that stood for 20 years. He was inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1988. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Fuqua is the 1,967th most popular athlete (down from 918th in 2019), the 10,574th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,748th in 2019) and the 349th most popular American Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ivan Fuqua ranks 1,967 out of 6,025Before him are Aigars Fadejevs, Henry Jonsson, Lyudmila Andonova, Andreas Thorkildsen, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen, and Charles Thias. After him are Lou Jones, Jasna Kolar-Merdan, Wendy Smith-Sly, Tom Kiely, Gertrude Liebhart, and Wolfgang Scheidel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ivan Fuqua ranks 377Before him are Joyce Cooper, Eileen Hiscock, Juan Pedevilla, Montgomery Wilson, Wallace Stegner, and Ann Sothern. After him are Heather Angel, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, William Gemmell Cochran, Archie Cochrane, Teofilo Spasojević, and Alex Raymond. Among people deceased in 1994, Ivan Fuqua ranks 323Before him are Aleksandr Chakovsky, Rolf Jacobsen, Arati Saha, Julian Symons, Stephen McNally, and Jimmy Miller. After him are John Curry, Eduard Kozynkevych, Alain de Changy, Jule Styne, Royal Dano, and Lynne Frederick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ivan Fuqua ranks 10,576 out of 20,380Before him are Robinson Jeffers (1887), Dave DeBusschere (1940), Eddie Hazel (1950), Charles Thias (1879), Brian Littrell (1975), and Allen Toussaint (1938). After him are Lou Jones (1932), Jim Inhofe (1934), Kevin Kelly (1952), Juli Ashton (1969), Ben Platt (1993), and Edward F. Moore (1925).

Among ATHLETES In United States

Among athletes born in United States, Ivan Fuqua ranks 349Before him are Gilbert Colgate (1899), Marilee Stepan (1935), Willard Rice (1895), Steve Prefontaine (1951), August Rodenberg (1873), and Charles Thias (1879). After him are Lou Jones (1932), Horatio Fitch (1900), Lillian Copeland (1904), Benjamin Bradshaw (1879), William Dickey (1874), and Mac Wilkins (1950).