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Joseph Alzin

1893 - 1930

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Joseph Alzin (18 December 1893 – 2 September 1930) was a Luxembourgish weightlifter, competing at the Summer Olympics for Luxembourg in 1920 and the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Paris, and died in Marseille. He won the silver medal at the 1920 Olympics in the heavyweight (+82.5 kg) weightlifting. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Alzin is the 612th most popular athlete (up from 761st in 2019), the 4,155th most popular biography from France (up from 4,537th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Joseph Alzin ranks 612 out of 6,025Before him are Fausto Acke, Glenn Morris, Eino Penttilä, Kazım Ayvaz, Angelo Vanzin, and Konrad Stäheli. After him are Kenenisa Bekele, Sverre Stenersen, Lars Hall, Gyula Török, Émile Delchambre, and Jan Brzák-Felix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Joseph Alzin ranks 200Before him are Marcel Minnaert, Norman Manley, Christopher Kelk Ingold, Marguerite Broquedis, Chang Taek-sang, and I. A. Richards. After him are Konstantin Muraviev, Alexander Ostrowski, Kurt Martti Wallenius, Mykola Khvylovy, Aleksei Losev, and Elisaveta Bagriana. Among people deceased in 1930, Joseph Alzin ranks 94Before him are Alexander Bogomazov, Florbela Espanca, Herbert Hall Turner, Valeriano Weyler, Kakutsa Cholokashvili, and Prosper-René Blondlot. After him are Leonard Meredith, Aleksandr Golovin, Gombojab Tsybikov, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, Walther Reinhardt, and Florian Cajori.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Alzin ranks 4,155 out of 6,770Before him are Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Adalbero of Reims (null), Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841), Philippe Rousselot (1945), René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1694), and Catherine Colonna (1956). After him are Pierre Emmanuel (1916), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), André Simon (1920), René Girard (1954), Rémy Belleau (1528), and Claude Nougaro (1929).

Among ATHLETES In France

Among athletes born in France, Joseph Alzin ranks 25Before him are Robert Liottel (1885), Émile Champion (1879), André Bonin (1909), Roger Beaufrand (1908), Louis Hostin (1908), and Michel Jazy (1936). After him are Émile Delchambre (1875), Jean Cau (1875), Jean Bouin (1888), André Gaudin (1874), Henri Deloge (1874), and Colette Besson (1946).