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Joseph Benz

1944 - 2021

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Joseph "Josef" or "Sepp" Benz (20 May 1944 – 5 February 2021) was a Swiss bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (Two-man: 1980), two silvers (Four-man: 1976, 1980), and one bronze (Two-man: 1976). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Benz is the 370th most popular athlete (up from 430th in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 446th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swiss Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Joseph Benz ranks 370 out of 6,025. Before him are Elżbieta Krzesińska, Albert Tyler, Charles Gmelin, Earl Thomson, Edward Lindberg, and Anni Steuer. After him are Albin Lermusiaux, Gösta Lilliehöök, Pavel Schmidt, Evelyn Furtsch, Ugo Frigerio, and Erik Lundqvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Joseph Benz ranks 371. Before him are Peter Lynch, Leonard Peltier, John Flanagan, Džemaludin Mušović, Glen Cook, and Robert Mueller. After him are Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Michael Grätzel, Rick Barry, Bruno Platter, Momčilo Perišić, and Denny Laine. Among people deceased in 2021, Joseph Benz ranks 273. Before him are Carla Fracci, Philippe Jaccottet, Marc Ferro, T. B. Joshua, John Warner, and Ester Mägi. After him are Tahir Salahov, Modibo Keita, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Masayuki Uemura, Sergei Kovalev, and Vassilis Alexakis.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Joseph Benz ranks 375 out of 1,015. Before him are Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein (1947), Walter Hauser (1837), Christian Gross (1954), R. Norris Williams (1891), Michele Besso (1873), and Robert Maillart (1872). After him are Françoise Giroud (1916), Fritz Platten (1883), Anton Allemann (1936), Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963), James Pradier (1790), and Oliver Neuville (1973).

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Among ATHLETES In Switzerland

Among athletes born in Switzerland, Joseph Benz ranks 6. Before him are Diego Garcia (null), Marina Doria (1935), Karl Röderer (1868), Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), and Hermann Barrelet (1879). After him are Konrad Stäheli (1931), Robert Alt (1927), Paul Martin (1901), Gottfried Diener (1926), Alfred Neveu (1890), and Walter Graf (1937).

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