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Józef Szmidt

1935 - 2024

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Józef Szmidt (born Josef Schmidt; 28 March 1935 – 29 July 2024) was a German and Polish Olympic athlete and the first triple jumper to reach 17 metres. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Józef Szmidt is the 279th most popular athlete (up from 538th in 2019), the 696th most popular biography from Poland (up from 960th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Józef Szmidt ranks 279 out of 6,025. Before him are Phil Edwards, Dimitrios Golemis, Alfred Tysoe, Vsevolod Bobrov, Robert Taylor, and Ursula Happe. After him are George Kerr, John Paine, Egil Danielsen, Bill Miller, Juan Carlos Zabala, and Walter Byron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Józef Szmidt ranks 210. Before him are Peter Brown, La Monte Young, Yury Solomin, Velasio de Paolis, Herb Alpert, and Martti Talvela. After him are José Sanfilippo, Ronald Graham, Dieter Hallervorden, Georgy Shonin, Judith Reisman, and Gerhard Mitter. Among people deceased in 2024, Józef Szmidt ranks 226. Before him are Carolyn Schuler, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Yury Solomin, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Jandira Martini, and Alberto Colombo. After him are Frédéric Mitterrand, Peter Sinfield, Yukio Kasaya, William Calley, Mircea Diaconu, and Wu Bangguo.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Józef Szmidt ranks 696 out of 1,694. Before him are Olga Desmond (1890), Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), Yakov Perelman (1882), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Jadwiga of Kalisz (1266), and Ursula Happe (1926). After him are Friedrich Gilly (1772), Matthias Habich (1940), Karl Otfried Müller (1797), Czesław Kiszczak (1925), Ernst Wiechert (1887), and Zenon Grocholewski (1939).

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Among ATHLETES In Poland

Among athletes born in Poland, Józef Szmidt ranks 8. Before him are Gustav Flatow (1875), Myer Prinstein (1878), Hans Woellke (1911), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Janusz Kusociński (1907), and Ursula Happe (1926). After him are Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Gerhard Stöck (1911), Walter Bathe (1892), Teresa Ciepły (1937), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), and Kazimierz Barburski (1942).

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