VOLLEYBALL PLAYER

Karch Kiraly

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Charles Frederick "Karch" Kiraly ( KARCH kirr-EYE; born November 3, 1960) is an American volleyball player, coach, and broadcast announcer. He was a central part of the U.S National Team that won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. He went on to win the gold medal again at the 1996 Olympic Games, the first Olympic competition to feature beach volleyball. He is the only player (man or woman) to have won Olympic medals of any color in both the indoor and beach volleyball categories. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karch Kiraly is the most popular volleyball player, the 4,205th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,125th in 2019) and the most popular American Volleyball Player.

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Among volleyball players, Karch Kiraly ranks 1 out of 199. After him are Josef Musil, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Lang Ping, Bernardo Rezende, Yuriy Poyarkov, Giba, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Masae Kasai, Yuri Chesnokov, Andrea Anastasi, and Nikola Grbić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Karch Kiraly ranks 140. Before him are Michael Stipe, Tony Robbins, Abdellatif Kechiche, Jane Lynch, Eric Betzig, and Tracy Pollan. After him are Zindzi Mandela, Agim Çeku, Reza Hosseini Nassab, Erin Brockovich, Marcel Koller, and Kate Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Karch Kiraly ranks 4,205 out of 20,380. Before him are William Stevenson (1900), Muse Watson (1948), Parry O'Brien (1932), William Bates (1860), Jerry Unser Jr. (1932), and Robert Indiana (1928). After him are Jef Raskin (1943), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884), Robert David Hall (1947), Clara Barton (1821), Richard Belzer (1944), and Steven Holl (1947).

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Among VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among volleyball players born in United States, Karch Kiraly ranks 1. After him are Kerri Walsh Jennings (1978), Clayton Stanley (1978), Matt Anderson (1987), Reid Priddy (1977), Lloy Ball (1972), Micah Christenson (1993), Sean Rooney (1982), David Smith (1985), Misty May-Treanor (1977), David Lee (1982), and Kimberly Hill (1989).

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